Journalist, writer and refugee advocate Juratė Kazickas was born in Lithuania 1943 and emigrated to the United States in 1947 with her parents, displaced war refugees Juozas and Alexandra Kazickas. After graduating from Trinity College in Washington, D.C., Kazickas volunteered in Kenya as a teacher. She began her journalism career at Look magazine and went to Vietnam as a freelance photojournalist where she was wounded during the battle of Khe Sanh in 1968. She spent 10 years as a reporter for the Associated Press, covering the 1973 Middle East war and American events.
She was a White House correspondent during the Carter administration and subsequently worked as a feature writer for The Washington Star. Kazickas is the co-author of several books on the history of American women, including: Susan B. Anthony Slept Here and War Torn: Stories of War from the Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam. She edited Odyssey of Hope, her father’s memoir about the Kazickas family’s experiences fleeing from Lithuania in World War II, immigrating to America, and participating in the Lithuania’s political and economic reemergence after the country regained its independence from the Soviet Union in 1990.
