Meet Alexis Derriso of Motown Women Veterans Association

Today we’d like to introduce you to Alexis Derriso

Hi Alexis, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstory with our readers?
Motown Women Veterans Association was established in 2019, we are a non-profit organization that hosts events for women veterans to bring them out of isolation allowing them to network and create a buddy buddy connection.

As a veteran myself, US Army often times its hard to connect to civilian life when you have been conditioned to act and live military style. There aren’t many places available for women veterans to relate to other women veterans who have walked in their boots. So Motown Women Veterans Association have created a way to show these women who have sacrificed so much to this country that they are appreciated and not invisible.

I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
Entering into a man’s world is never easy for a woman. Proven back as early as the 1920’s when women were finally able to vote. It wasn’t until June 1948 when President Harry S.Truman signed the Women’s Armed Service Integration Act allowing women to receive regular permanent status in the armed forces. As of today we are still fighting to receive equal rights such as adequate housing for homeless female veterans and their children, disability claims and health care.

Thanks – so what else should our readers know about Motown Women Veterans Association ?
Motown Women Veterans Association is a very unique organization. We host monthly events so that Women Veterans can come out to enjoy the no questions asked atmospheres. Our signature yearly events are birthday celebrations, camping, Myrtle Beach, Breast Cancer Awareness and November Veterans Day. This upcoming Veterans Day we are hosting a Fashion Show, Dinner, Dance at The Masonic Temple located at 500 Temple St, Detroit, Michigan November 10th, 2024 from 7pm-1am guest theme attire is the Roaring 1920’s. This event is held to bring awareness of our homeless female veterans and children, not to mention that the 1920’s marked history for women from independence, jobs,and the right to vote. We collaborate with other organizations to bring a wider range of resources and activities.

Motown Women Veterans Association is known for their Battle Cry tshirts and dogtags especially designed for women veterans, because men tell war stories and women have a Battle Cry.

What matters most to you? Why?
What matters to me most is that future women going into the military are protected. We join the military for various reasons, but mainly to better ourselves and give to this country. But when you have to fight a battle within your choice of military branches protecting yourself against your fellow service men from MST-Military Sexual Trauma, harassment, being treated less then, and looked over from promotion because you didn’t do a sexual favor or because of the color of your skin. This will always be a matter for me until the government comes up with stronger guildlines to create punishment for those who comment these unnecessary crimes against women in the military and focus on the real enemy for which we are trained to combat.

Pricing:

• T-shirts $25.00
• Dogtags $12.00
• Set T-Shirt/Dogtags $30.00

Contact Info:

• Facebook: Motown Women Veterans