![Chief Warrant Officer 2 Brian Boase, dressed as Santa, waves to Forward Operating Base Salerno, Afghanistan, before being dropped off by a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter.](http://images03.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2024-12/santa.jpg?itok=KFVvxUEU "Chief Warrant Officer 2 Brian Boase, an intelligence chief, Headquarters, Headquarters Company, 3rd Brigade Combat Team "Rakkasans," 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), waves to Forward Operating Base Salerno, Afghanistan, before being dropped off by a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter to deliver Christmas presents, Dec. 25, 2012. (Spc. Brian Smith-Dutton/U.S. Army photo)")
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About Joanna Guldin
Joanna Guldin is the community engagement manager at Military.com. She writes for the Spouse and Off-Duty verticals. Using feedback from our readers, she crafts articles centering primarily around entertainment and community members’ personal stories. She occasionally writes articles focusing on overlooked military history.
Joanna has worked in the military community for more than a decade with for-profit and non-profit entities. She is the writer behind one of the largest and longest-running military spouse blogs online, Jo, My Gosh! and is the co-founder of PILLAR, a yearly virtual retreat for military spouses and significant others dealing with their partners’ deployment.
Joanna’s writing has been featured in national and international publications. She is a 2018 WarHorse Fellow, a selected attendee for #VerizonSalutes Military Summit, a member of Meta’s Boost Leaders Network, and a selected attendee of Meta’s Boost Leaders Network Gather conference. In 2020, she was inducted into her county’s Women’s Hall of Fame for her contributions in the military community space.
Joanna lives in Central Pennsylvania with her Navy veteran husband, young twins, and Jack Russell/Godzilla mix. In her spare time, she enjoys reading historical fiction and travel memoirs, watching PBS dramas, and cross stitching gifts for friends and family.
Expertise
- Working with Military.com’s audience since 2019
- Off-Duty: Entertainment and history topics
- Spouse: Family and spouse topics
Professional Roles
- Community Engagement editor for Military.com
Education
- Holds a Bachelor of Arts in English with an emphasis in creative writing and a minor in Women’s Studies from Schreyer’s Honors College at Pennsylvania State University
- Holds a Master of Arts in teaching in Secondary English Education from Johns Hopkins University
Achievement
- 2021 Military Influencer Conference Changemaker
- 2018 WarHorse Fellow
- 2023 Silver President’s Volunteer Service Award
- Two-time Military Family Advisory Network advisory board member
- Phi Beta Kappan
Publications
- Featured in We Are The Mighty
- Featured in Army Times
- Featured in NMSN Career Connections
- Featured in The Huffington Post
- Featured in WarHorse
- Featured in MilitaryOneClick
- Featured in newSpecial
- Featured in The ID.me Insider
- Featured on Operative Experience’s website
- Featured on The Headstrong Project’s website
- Featured on MFAN’s website
