2025 State of the Military Family℠ Summit
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Operation Advocacy
State of the Military Family℠ Summit
Strengthening Military Families
America depends on the readiness of its military—a certainty most citizens take for granted—and our warfighters depend on the stability of their families to stay mission-focused. As policy changes at the Federal level and American communities pivot to create efficiencies throughout the government, America’s military families are plunged into uncertainty, questioning the policies, resources, and funding that keep their families strong wherever the military sends them.
When change happens, military families feel it first. Still, they continue to serve. They serve despite being moved every 2-3 years, uprooting their families and leaving their support structures behind. They serve while military spouses face unemployment rates at five times the national level. They serve while a quarter of military families struggle to put food on the table. And they serve despite military teens reporting low mental well-being and rates of self-harm more than twice as high as their civilian peers.
Military families need us now more than ever. Join us to learn about the state of the military family in 2025 and what you can do to strengthen America’s military and their families.
Networking + Lunch
Join us for a networking lunch, offering a unique opportunity to connect with fellow military spouses, advocates, and community leaders.
Operation Advocacy: More Than a Spouse
Your Voice. Your Story.
This Military Spouse Appreciation Day, we’re giving military spouses the gift that the National Military Family Association has valued most over the past 55 years: the platform to raise your voices in the rooms that matter and ensure we strengthen our families and our communities.
Together with leaders from both sides of the aisle, we will inspire military spouses to understand their power, bring in professional storytellers to refine their stories, and work together on a specific issue we all care about: military spouse unemployment.
Together, we’re stronger®
If you have questions, please contact KStoll@MilitaryFamily.org.
Speakers
Keynote Speaker
The Honorable William R. Evanina
Founder and CEO of the Evanina Group, LLC.
Former Director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center.
Mr. Evanina currently serves as Founder and CEO of the Evanina Group advising CEOs and Board of Directors on strategic corporate risk. Mr. Evanina provides a wide array of elite strategic risk consultation services and tabletop exercises to Boards of Directors, CEOs, and senior decision makers operating within a very complex and competitive global economy and with nefarious nation state actors. Clients include corporations within energy, financial services, telecommunications, biomedical, technology, private equity, national security, and retail sectors.
Previously, Mr. Evanina was nominated by President Trump and subsequently confirmed by the U.S. Senate on May 6, 2020, to be the first Senate-confirmed Director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC). Mr. Evanina served as the Director of NCSC since June 2, 2014. In this position, he was the head of Counterintelligence (CI) for the U.S. Government.
Mr. Evanina was responsible for leading and supporting the CI and security activities of the US Intelligence Community, the U.S. Government, and U.S. private sector entities at risk from intelligence collection or attack by foreign adversaries.
Prior to his selection as the Director of NCSC, Mr. Evanina served as the Chief of the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) Counterespionage Group preceded by serving as Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, where he led operations in both the Counterintelligence and Counterterrorism Divisions.
Mr. Evanina served over 31 years of distinguished federal service, 24 of which as a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Mr. Evanina was born and raised in Peckville, PA. He holds an Associate’s Degree in History from Keystone College in LaPlume, PA, a Bachelor’s Degree in Public Administration from Wilkes University in Wilkes Barre, PA, and a Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership from Arcadia University in Philadelphia. Mr. Evanina was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Humanities from Keystone College.
Mr. Evanina resides in Alexandria, VA and is married to his wife JulieAnne and has two sons, Dominic and Will.
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