Jurate Kazickas

Jurate Kazickas
Jūratė Kazickaitė
Kazickas in 2013
Born	Jūratė Kristina Kazickas (1943-02-18) February 18, 1943 (age 81) Vilnius, Lithuania
Other names	Jurate Kazickas-Altman
Alma mater	Trinity Washington University
Occupation	Journalist
Spouse	Roger Altman ​ (m. 1981)​
Children	3
Father	Juozas Kazickas

Jūratė Kristina Kazickas-Altman (born February 18, 1943) is a retired American journalist and campaigner for refugee rights. She was born in Lithuania during World War II, and her family fled ahead of the 1944 Soviet re-occupation. After graduating from Trinity Washington University, Kazickas worked as a volunteer teacher in Kenya with the Consolata Missionaries.^[1] She met some US soldiers on leave from the Vietnam War while traveling in Asia and decided to report from the conflict. Kazickas reported from the front lines for about a year before being wounded by artillery fire at the Battle of Khe Sanh and returning to the US.

Kazickas later reported on the women's liberation movement for the Associated Press and, with Lynn Sherr, published the Liberated Women's Appointment Calendar and Survival Handbook annually for ten years. In 1976, with Sherr, she wrote the American Woman's Gazetteer, a listing of locations in the country associated with women in historic events. Kazickas reported from the 1973 Yom Kippur War and on the Office of the First Lady Rosalynn Carter. In recent years, Kazickas has advocated for refugee rights and been president of a family charity supporting education in Lithuania.