Women in Aviation and Pursing Your Dream

<p>Tyler is joined by Liz Booker, a retired Coast Guard helicopter pilot and writer for young adults, to discuss her passion to open up the exploration of aviation and make it more accessible to young women. Liz nurtures her passion through the Aviatrix Book Review website which offers books in all genres, for all ages, featuring women in aviation. Tune in to learn more about Liz and the amazing women of aviation.<br/><br/><b>Inspire and encourage the girls in their lives to pursue their dreams!</b><br/><br/>Ways to connect with Liz<br/>website <a href='https://aviatrixbookreview.com/'>https://aviatrixbookreview.com/</a><br/>Instagram <a href='https://www.instagram.com/literaryaviatrix/'>https://www.instagram.com/literaryaviatrix/</a><br/>LinkedIn <a href='https://www.linkedin.com/in/literaryaviatrix/'>https://www.linkedin.com/in/literaryaviatrix/</a><br/>Facebook <a href='https://www.facebook.com/LiteraryAviatrix/'>https://www.facebook.com/LiteraryAviatrix/</a><br/><br/>Bio<br/>After dropping out of high school, Liz enlisted in the Coast Guard at 18 and worked as a deck hand and ship navigator for five years before attending Officer Candidate School. A year later she completed Navy flight training and flew the H65 Dolphin helicopter out of San Francisco, Miami, and Los Angeles. She was on Active Duty for 15 years and was an O4 before she finally earned a bachelor’s degree online with American Military University and applied for the Coast Guard’s graduate school programs. In 2008 she completed a Master’s in Public Administration at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. She spent the last six years of her 28-year career in Joint billets as the Deputy J3 at Joint Interagency Task Force South and as the Senior Defense Official to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean working for Southern Command out of the U.S. Embassy in Bridgetown. While she was assigned to JIATF-SOUTH, she used the rest of her GI Bill to earn a second master’s degree in writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. </p><p>Liz’s Harvard experience