Taryn Davis

Taryn Davis

Taryn Davis made it through one of the most difficult circumstances I could ever imagine. Finding out her husband, Corporal Michael Davis was killed while serving in Iraq.

She did not immediately know what to do or where she should turn. She even googled her new title of "widow" in hopes of finding some help at getting through her grief, only to be given the response "did you mean window?" Once she realize that most people did not like talking about their new title, she decided to try to connect with young women like herself who had lost a husband or fiancé and make a documentary of her encounters with the other widows she met.

Taryn created The American Widow Project, helping widows support other widows of soldiers. So far this project has helped over 700 widows from the war offering things like peer-to-peer retreats and counseling. She also uses different social networks that the wives had gotten used to using to connect to their husbands to share memories with one another and connect to other widows across the nation.

"My fellow military widows have shown me that we are far more than the sum of our tragedy"
~Taryn Davis