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I believe you can only lead, as far as you have come. After I started my own healing, I began to help other women.
I believe you can only lead, as far as you have come. After I started my own healing, I began to help other women.
Election 2018 may be more than a year away, but one of the longest-standing members of the Ramsey County Board already has a challenger. Trista MatasCastillo, a 16-year military veteran and housing advocate who lives in St. Paul’s Payne-Phalen neighborhood, Read more…
SAINT PAUL, MN – Trista MatasCastillo will hold a “Progressive Kick-off” on Tuesday, October 10th, for her campaign for Ramsey County Commissioner – District 3. “Our district needs a representative that can work cooperatively with neighborhoods, businesses, and with other Read more…
In August 2011, the Make the Connection team heard from 21 Veterans in Minneapolis and met a remarkable military couple: Trista, a Veteran of the Army, Marine Corps, and Army National Guard; and Hector, a U.S. Army Ranger. Trista shared Read more…
This week we discuss the centennial of the 34th Red Bull Infantry Division, learn about a veteran housing program called Journey Home Minnesota and get an update from our Senior Enlisted Advisor. Guests include: Doug Bekke – Military Historical Society Read more…
A man and woman are in the car ahead, and the car has a veteran’s license plate. Which one is the veteran? Most people would identify the man. But maybe this time it’s the woman. As the number of women Read more…
Lu Griffin has no doubt at all that her deceased mother, Enid Frances Larson Griffin of St. Anthony Park, would have gladly worn a “pussyhat” at the Women’s March on Washington this weekend. “She would have loved it,” Griffin said Read more…
Various initiatives underway to support and honor veterans will be featured on the upcoming Compass public affairs program airing on Pioneer Public Television on Sunday, October 2, 2016, at 12:30 p.m. Compass producer Laura Kay Prosser travels to Atwater Minnesota to hear about the genuine Read more…
Next Up: Trista Matascastillo of the Minnesota Humanities Center is in the studio to discuss Veterans affairs. We will also be discussing the upcoming Veteran’s Voices awards and the Echoes of War discussion. Tune in to hear how female veterans are Read more…
The Bush Foundation has awarded 2016 Bush Fellowships to 24 people who have shown leadership accomplishments and have “extraordinary potential.” The annual fellowships are available to those who apply from Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and 23 area Native nations. Read more…
Trista Matascastillo knew the symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Her husband was diagnosed with the condition in 2004, and as an Army officer, she had been trained to recognize the warning signs. When some of those same hints manifested Read more…
Trista Matascastillo served 16 years in the Navy, Marine Corps, and Army National Guard. She currently serves as the Veterans’ Voices Program Officer with the Minnesota Humanities Center and as Chair of the Women Veterans Initiative, a non-profit advocating for Read more…
Last Sunday night’s game between the Minnesota Lynx and the New York Liberty was important for many reason. The Lynx and Liberty, leaders of their respective conferences, were battling it out for the best record in the WNBA, as well Read more…
LITTLE FALLS – When people ask Staff Sgt. Amity Marver if she’s happy about women getting to serve in more combat roles in the military, she chuckles. Marver spent nearly two years on an extended tour in Iraq, where as Read more…
This week on Minnesota Military Radio we find out what’s new with the Minnesota Humanities Center’s veterans’ programs and get an overview on the basics of PTSD from a Minneapolis VA Health Care System behaviorist. Guests include: Trista Matacastillo – Read more…
Female veterans need mental health care just as much as their male counterparts do. But traditional options for treatment like those offered at the nation’s VA hospitals often aren’t well-suited for women’s lives, said Trista Matascastillo, program officer and chair Read more…
Trista Matascastillo remembers arriving at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center in 2010 for an exam and thinking the hospital didn’t quite get the needs of female veterans. The exam room, for instance, opened onto the patient waiting area, she said. Read more…
Trista Matascastillo, who served in the military for 16 years, talks about the reality of connecting women veterans with the benefits and services they are entitled to. Since it was established in 2008, the Women Veteran’s Initiative has identified barriers Read more…
StoryCorps’ Military Voices Initiative records stories from members of the U.S. military who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. In 1998, Trista Matascastillo was training to become an officer in the Navy, when she was sexually assaulted by someone she had Read more…
In 1998, Trista Matascastillo was in the Navy, when she was sexually assaulted by someone she had served with. Trista told no one about the attack. She had a son as a result and raised him by herself. Five years Read more…