BIOGRAFI MARY ANN WRIGHT
MARY ANN WRIGHT is a retired United States Army colonel and retired U.S. State + Department official. Born in 1947, Ann Wright grew up in Arkansas and read law at the University of Arkansas. She later earned her master’s degree in National Security Affairs from the U.S. Naval War College.
Her duties in the army include reconstruction efforts in Grenada and Somalia. She received the U.S’ State Department Award for Heroism in 1997, after helping to evacuate several thousand people during the civil war in Sierra Leone. She was also one of three recipients of the first annual Truthout Freedom and Democracy Awards.
While working for the Foreign Service within the U.S. State Department, Wright served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. embassies in Afghanistan (which she helped open), Sierra Leone (an embassy which she helped close and then reopen again), Micronesia and Mongolia, and also served at U.S. embassies in Uzbekistan (which she helped open), Kyrgyzstan, Grenada, and Nicaragua.
She is most noted for having been one of three State Department officials to publicly resign in direct protest of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. She also spoke out against United Nations bombing tactics waged in Somalia, in the effort to kill rebel leader Mohamed Farrah Aidid. Wright also served as one of five judges at the January 2006 sessions of the International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration.
Wright was also a passenger on the Challenger 1, which along with the Mavi Marmara, was part of the Gaza flotilla in 2010. Most recently, she was the Boat Leader in the Women’s Boat to Gaza 2016 mission, which was intercepted and detained by Israeli Navy. In 2008, her book “Voices of Conscience: Government Insiders Speak Out Against the War in Iraq” was published.
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