2025 Women Warriors’ Keynote Luncheon

September 6, 2025 (11am - 2pm)

at Blue Ridge Conference Center, Flat Rock, NC 28731

– Featuring Lt. Col. Lisa Jaster –

Who We Are

Army Lieutenant Colonel Lisa Jaster is a soldier, an engineer, a wife and mother, and a trailblazer.

One of only three women to graduate from the first integrated United States Army Ranger program — one of the most difficult combat training courses in the world — Lisa was the first female Army Reserve officer to become Ranger qualified. Lisa endured the training, which takes a minimum of 61 days and includes up to 20 hours of training per day alongside a strict diet, for a grueling six months. She graduated at age 37, while the average trainee age is 23.

Lisa, a fitness fanatic who continues to train CrossFit and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, has a hard-won understanding of the importance of perseverance, as well as a deeply ingrained respect for camaraderie stemming from a seven-year-long active-duty career (including tours in Iraq and Afghanistan).

Prior to receiving her Ranger tab, Lisa worked as an engineer with Shell Oil in Houston and an Army Reserve individual mobilization augmentee with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Lisa initially was commissioned in the Army in 2000 after graduating from the prestigious United States Military Academy at West Point and returned to the reserves in 2012 after a five-year hiatus from serving. She volunteered for combat training when she discovered the Army Ranger course was being opened to women for the first time in 60 years as a U.S. government experiment to see how women would fare in the notoriously brutal program. She is also the author of the best-selling book Delete the Adjective, in which, she shares captivating stories of her experiences in Ranger School while offering valuable lessons on breaking the barriers society places on you. Lisa is the recipient of numerous military accolades including two Bronze Star Medals and three Meritorious Service Medals.

The Veterans Healing Farm (VHF)  is a 501c3 nonprofit organization focused on helping Veterans and their families enhance their mental, emotional, and physical well-being.

VHF offers a variety of programs and services  for our Veteran community. This includes  agritherapy (growing produce, medicinal  herbs, beekeeping, and tomatoes),  workshops (equine therapy, canine therapy,  neurofeedback therapy, music therapy, art  therapy as well as medicinal plants, jam  making, vegetable canning, mushroom  inoculation, and dozens more. Past Veteran centric events have included the Traveling  Vietnam and 9/11 Memorials, Resource Fair,  kayaking, fl y fi shing, sporting events and  living music during the summer months

Why should you be a Sponsor or an Exhibitor?

The Veterans Healing Farm’s Women Warriors’ Keynote Luncheon is where we, as a community, recognize that female veterans are seen and valued - that the term “veteran” is not exclusive to a single gender. This event is to provide a space for everyone to connect, to highlight challenges and accomplishments, and to show our support for all veterans.

In addition to reaching the veterans on-site, we offer a wide range of sponsorship opportunities that will allow your organization to share your product or service offerings through our social media channels reaching over 20,000 veterans, family members, care givers, and supporters.

This event expands our community’s public recognition and understanding of what it means to be a veteran. That this public awareness helps remove barriers created by a number of stereotypes, labels and assumptions - we will be “deleting the adjective!”

We hope you’ll join us in Hendersonville this September!