Student Veteran Experience: Impact and Value - Jared Lyon, CEO, Student Veterans of America

Jared Lyon, National President and CEO of Student Veterans of America (SVA), leads the organization’s efforts to support student veterans to, through, and beyond higher education. Since his appointment in January 2016, Lyon has overseen SVA’s growth to now include a network of more than 1,500 chapters on campuses in all 50 states and four countries representing more than 750,000 student veterans. During his tenure, he co-authored the National Veteran Education Success Tracker (NVEST) Project research, and in 2017 led SVA’s commitment to pass the “Forever GI Bill,” the largest expansion of college aid for military veterans in a decade. Lyon holds a Master of
Public Administration from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, is the Vice Chair for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Veteran’s Advisory Committee on Education, a commissioner for the American Council on Education’s Commission for Education Attainment and Innovation, a 2018 Presidential Leadership Scholar, and a veteran of the U.S. Navy.

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