Mia, who fled the violence of civil war in Peru, found herself just after 9/11 enlisting into the USMC to defend the nation from the turmoil her family had fled. In 2003, Mia was in Iraq when the intensity of the conflict was increasing. She kindled a love for art even in the war rattled streets of Iraq. She quickly discovered art as a way to quite the storm within and found a love for working with clay. She found that the process was therapeutic and founded the nonprofit Claymore Vets. She saw that her passion with works of art brought the same meaning in life to the lives of others from the uniform. She has been featured as a sculptor in her very own art show and is quite passionate about bring peace to others in the veteran identity. She has a background in art therapy and I immensely enjoyed our conversation.
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