Qwynn Galloway-Salazar

Bio

At the intersection of story, service, and systems transformation, Dr. Qwynn Galloway-Salazar is redefining how nations honor, support, and accompany Veterans and their loved ones as they age, face end-of-life, experience bereavement, and navigate survivorship. An internationally recognized applied scholar-practitioner, she integrates public health, applied theatre, and compassionate community design to advance culturally responsive, trauma-informed models of care.

As Founder & CEO of In Their Honor, she leads a creative consulting practice that uses storytelling, arts-based inquiry, and community engagement to strengthen how societies understand and care for military-connected communities. Her work centers dignity, belonging, relational healing, and cultural humility, while bridging policy, practice, and lived experience to foster sustainable systems of care.

Through her national leadership with PsychArmor, Dr. Galloway-Salazar has shaped strategies and programming that deepen military cultural competency across healthcare, education, and community systems. She is the creative architect behind Caring for Veterans Through the End of Life, a landmark course collection that has reshaped Veteran-centered end-of-life education and influenced how professionals approach caregiving, grief, and moral injury across the continuum of care.

She also co-leads the first global Veteran-focused doula education initiative with the International Doula Life Movement, advancing interdisciplinary approaches that integrate clinical care, community support, and culturally grounded end-of-life practices.

An Army Veteran, spouse to a Combat Veteran, end-of-life doula educator, and George W. Bush Institute Veteran Leadership Scholar (Class of 2025), she has spent more than two decades creating environments where military-connected individuals feel seen, heard, and held. Her creative scholarship spans monologue performances, applied theatre, and dialogue-driven community experiences, including Grief Dialogues: Memorial Day (2025) and Can I Trust You, performed at End Well (2024).

Recognized as USA Today’s 2024 Woman of the Year for Georgia and the Inaugural Georgia Woman Veteran of the Year (2022), she contributes her expertise to national advisory bodies focused on caregiving, end-of-life care, and compassionate communities, while mentoring doctoral students and emerging scholars exploring military-connected well-being and death education.

Across stages, classrooms, and global community spaces, her work is guided by a simple conviction: care is not a service to be delivered, but a relationship to be honored—one rooted in dignity, presence, and shared humanity.

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