Veteran Education

Keith Streicher is a millennial, minority, disabled, decorated Iraq War veteran. He bravely enlisted to serve his country in the mountains of the Republic of South Korea and in the valleys of Iraq Anbar province. Following his service, Mr. Streicher completed his bachelor’s degree at the Catholic University of America and an Executive Entrepreneurship Program from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He has served Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes-Norton as an intern, Congressman Beto O'Rourke as a Military Legislative Assistant, and the Obama administration as a White House intern and United States Department of Veterans Affairs Secretarial Appointee advising the Secretary, the department, and the United States Congress on veteran’s issues as a veteran’s expert. 

In 2015, Mr. Streicher was recruited by the Democratic party of Wisconsin and appointed in November 2015-2016 to the Russ for Wisconsin Veterans Advisory Council where he served as an advisor to US Senate Candidate Russ Feingold. He is the former Assistant Director of the American Legion National Headquarters Veterans Rehabilitation division and Outreach and Recruitment Director for the National Association for Black Veterans. Keith Streicher is the founder and former Chairman & CEO of a DC based nonprofit known as the Veterans Leadership Coalition or VLC (VLC mission is to bridge the gap of individual silos of veteran’s services and provide information, resources, and advocacy on behalf of the veteran, service member, guardsmen, reserves and their families). 

Recently, Keith Streicher has served as the Interim Business Operations Manager for Rocketship Transformation Prep, Program Director for the Wisconsin Veterans Chamber of Commerce, and former Campaign Manager for Councilwoman Chantia Lewis-Chantia for Progress. Keith sits on the Rite Hite YMCA advisory board as Chair of the Annual Giving Campaign and Social Responsibility committee, Board of Trustees for Milwaukee’s Finest Scholars, and Board of Directors of Outpost Natural Foods. He currently serves as Director of the Veterans Upward Bound Trio & Pre College Department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.