Caitlin Steinberg is a third generation Cedarburg resident, historian, award winning journalist, and an EMT/soon-to-be Firefighter at the Cedarburg Fire Department. Specializing in American Military History, Steinberg has dedicated her life to preserving and highlighting the histories of American service members in museums, educational curriculum, and entertainment productions. She has worked at the USS Arizona Memorial as a Staff Historian, served as historian and archivist to the indigenous Ts’msyen tribe of Annette Islands Reservation in Alaska, and founded Operation Green Faces, a 501(C)3 research nonprofit preserving the history of the earliest United States Navy SEALs.
After 16 years, Steinberg moved home to live closer to family and continue her research by creating the first community Veterans Oral History Program for Ozaukee County, showcasing the efficacy of community-based oral history programs engineered to simultaneously provide mental health services, public engagement, and provide museum content as well as district-wide educational materials. This will be the first program of its kind in the nation and its culmination will coincide with America’s 250th Anniversary in 2026.
She is proud member of the Society of American Archivists, the Oral History Association, the American Association of State and Local History and the Cedarburg Artists Guild.
Additionally, her work as a Naval Special Warfare historian is providing her the honor of writing “Dundee: The First Native American Navy SEAL,” a narrative nonfiction book about Ts’msyen and Tlingit elder, Solomon D. Atkinson. Born in 1938, Atkinson’s life on the first SEAL Team, working with NASA’s Apollo program, Jacques Cousteau, the CIA, the earliest atomic bomb testing has become that of legends; spanning the jungles of Vietnam to the Pentagon, White House, and soon to be the 7 seas. Atkinson's book release will coincide with the Navy's commission of a new Navajo-Class ship after Atkinson in 2028.”
After 16 years, Steinberg moved home to live closer to family and continue her research by creating the first community Veterans Oral History Program for Ozaukee County, showcasing the efficacy of community-based oral history programs engineered to simultaneously provide mental health services, public engagement, and provide museum content as well as district-wide educational materials. This will be the first program of its kind in the nation and its culmination will coincide with America’s 250th Anniversary in 2026.
She is proud member of the Society of American Archivists, the Oral History Association, the American Association of State and Local History and the Cedarburg Artists Guild.
Additionally, her work as a Naval Special Warfare historian is providing her the honor of writing “Dundee: The First Native American Navy SEAL,” a narrative nonfiction book about Ts’msyen and Tlingit elder, Solomon D. Atkinson. Born in 1938, Atkinson’s life on the first SEAL Team, working with NASA’s Apollo program, Jacques Cousteau, the CIA, the earliest atomic bomb testing has become that of legends; spanning the jungles of Vietnam to the Pentagon, White House, and soon to be the 7 seas. Atkinson's book release will coincide with the Navy's commission of a new Navajo-Class ship after Atkinson in 2028.”