Martha Rasmus is president of the Mental Health Association of Wisconsin.
Andy Hendrickson and Tony Peterson are coordinators of Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom Veteran and Family Outreach at the VA Medical Center. Both are veterans; they work on mental health issues with departing and returning military members and their families. They spoke with Jane Hampden.
Miriam Fleming is a partner with the Milwaukee law firm Michael Best and Friedrich, and an advocate that people designate a "healthcare agent", to make healthcare-related decisions if they become unable to care for themselves. She'll talk more about the topic in a lecture at the Northshore Library in Glendale tomorrow evening. The talk is sponsored by Milwaukee's Jewish Family Services.
Ali Selim is the director and Randy Bobo is the Milwaukee-based sound designer of Sweet Land, which shows now through Thursday at the Times Cinema in Milwaukee.
Ann Angel teaches journalism and creative writing at Mount Mary College in Milwaukee. She's the editor of a new collection of short stories for young adults, called Such a Pretty Face: Short Stories about Beauty, published by Amulet Books.