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Army Reserve Capt. Deshauna Barber is thinking big.
The CEO of the nonpartisan Service Women’s Action Network (SWAN), which connects female service members with various resources, Barber has spent the last year working to give the 10,000-member-strong organization a larger presence.
“I wanted to use my platform and my previous title to be able to expand on and almost commercialize us a bit more,” the former Miss USA told The Hill in a recent interview.
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“As much as I want us to do as much work on the Hill and legislation and things along those lines, I still feel like all the great work that we do, a lot of the world, a lot of the country just doesn’t know about it.”