MB Dallocchio is an artist, writer, combat veteran, and social worker with 15 years of experience in inpatient and outpatient mental health for both the nonprofit and military mental health sectors. She served in the US Army between 1998-2006 as a medic and mental health sergeant. As a former member of Team Lioness (a team of women attached to Special Forces and Marine infantry units in Iraq) and deployed to Ramadi, Iraq in 2004-2005, she was one of the first women to engage in direct combat operations.

In 2006, she was awarded the David L. Boren NSEP Scholarship, the Massachusetts Outstanding Woman Veteran of the Year award in 2009, and The Distinguished Women in Nevada award in 2014.

MB Dallocchio wrote the “Women Warriors” chapter in War Trauma and Its Wake (Routledge, 2012) and was featured in the San Francisco Chronicle, New York Times, NPR and many other outlets covering the female combat veteran experience. She has also been featured in the documentaries “Lioness” and “The Long Road Home.”

After a long road of post-war reintegration, she received her Master of Social Work degree from University of Southern California in 2016. As both a veteran and social worker, she currently specializes in artistic psychosocial rehabilitation, polytrauma, and sustainable living in the US Southwest.

For more information, please visit www.thedesertwarrior.com.