Ilona Meagher

Who is Ilona Meagher?

Ilona Meagher is an independent Illinois-based online writer, public speaker, new media developer and author of Moving a Nation to Care: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and America's Returning Troops published in 2007, the same year she was called to testify before the U.S. Congress regarding her research and reporting into the issue. She is editor of the online journal PTSD Combat: Winning the War Within and author of the ePluribus Media PTSD Timeline. Ilona holds a B.A. in journalism, summa cum laude and with University Honors, from Northern Illinois University where, in 2008, she received the "Illinois Journalist of the Year-Student Scholarship Award." In 2009, she earned the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Deans' Award, Journalism; the Communications Studies Program Outstanding Major Award; and the Kappa Tau Alpha Top Scholar Award. Accepted into the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Journalism & Mass Communication graduate program in 2010, her studies will focus on Science, Health and Technology Communications.