Veterans Resource Center
In the last few years, I have been collaborating with Tami Thacker, the Director at the Veterans Resource Center at UC Riverside as we film many interviews at the VRC during 2025.
These are the videos we have created in the last few months.
Tami Thacker, Sheryl Shaffer and VHVtv Intern Amaris Orozco.
This VHVtv segment is about Lisas Roybal, a U.S. Navy Nurse Corps (R) Veteran and actively involved in the AMVETS One Tour and actively participates in the AMVETS Post 77, Loma Linda, Ca.
She lives a life of serve for the Veteran Community.
We filmed this interview with Larock Benford, U.S. Marine Corps Sergeant Major (R). He presents the Southwest Riverside County Marine Corps League Detachment 1057.
Here is a recent video we made at the Vet Expo in Moreno Valley on Oct. 2, 2025
It is about US Marine Corps Veteran Karen Hooper.
The second interview is with Ralph Watkins of U.S. VETS in the Inland Empire.
This interview is with Phyllis Thomas Miller, a U.S. Navy Veteran and her beautiful art.
The next video interview is with U.S. Marine Corps Veteran and Founder of Gunny Gear.
We have several more interviews in post production which we will add soon..
Ralph Figueroa, Tami Thacker and Sheryl Shaffer, VHVtv Producer
Ralph Figueroa is interviewed by Tami Thacker at the UC Riverside Veterans Resource Center.
The VetArt, the Veterans Art Project Ceramics Studio and videos were made at the VetArt Studios in Vista, CA
VetArt, the Veterans Art Project and Veterans Helping Veterans TV Podcasts work together to create interviews
with Veteran Artists who tell their personal stories of healing by creating ART.
This year, I have filmed some interviews at the VETART Ceramics Studio in Vista, CA.
VETART Interview with Steven Macks Dilley, the Founder and Executive Producer of VetArt, the Veterans Art Project.
Here are some VETART Interviews about how creating art helps with military trauma.
Filmed 4 interviews with veterans & supporters who create a unique collaborative project of a community totem pole for VetArt and the Posts for the Peace and Justice Project.
Featuring Kira Carrillo Corser, the Founder of the Posts for the Peace and Justice Project, Mike Ortiz, U.S.Navy Veteran, Kelly Cardinell, U.S. Marine Corps Veteran, and
Steven Macks Dilley, the Founder and Executive Director of VetArt, the Veterans Art Project.
This video is about Resilient Voices: Veterans Story Telling For Change.
Featuring these Veteran Artists:
Darron Devillez U.S. Navy,
Linda Moore U.S. Navy,
Kelly Cardinal U.S. Marine Corps,
Mike Ortiz, U.S. Navy,
Reginald “Reggie Green, U.S. Navy,
Chuy Fuentes U.S. Marine Corps,
Anthony “Tony” LoBue U.S. Army
and Omar Columbus, U.S. Air Force.
It was wonderful to return to filming interviews at the VetArt Pop-Up Arts Cafe in Escondido on July 4, 2025.
“VetArt PopUp Escondido, Veterans Tell Your Story!”
Featured in order of appearance, the Executive Director of VetArt, the Veterans Art Project Steve Dilley, Omar Columbus U.S. Air Force Veteran, Linda Moore U.S. Navy Veteran, Darron Devillez, VetArt Master of Ceremonies and U.S. Navy Veteran, Ivan Sam VetArt Cultural Ambassador and Land Acknowledgement and U.S. Navy Veteran, Jim Moreno U.S. Navy Veteran and
Reginald “Reggie” Green, VetArt Studio Ceramics Instructor and U.S. Navy Veteran.
It was great to return to the MidPen Media Center in Palo Alto, CA
My name is Sheryl Alexa Shaffer and I produce the Veterans Helping Veterans TV for the MidPen Media Center in Palo Alto, CA.
Thank You to Alan Zoraster, a U.S. Air Force Veteran and collaborator with VHVtv.
It was great to work with the Midpen Media Center Studio Manager Jeffrey Kologe.
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Here is the Midpen Media Center version of the program we created in the studio in Palo Alto on April 9, 2025.
<5>VETArt, the Veterans Art Project and Veterans Helping Veterans TV
I travel with VetArt, the Veterans Art Project, and film interviews with Veteran Artists through the VetArt Pop Up Art Cafe’s since October 2022 in California.
These are interviews with U.S. Military Veterans who tell us their story of discovering they had artistic abilities and how they over come military trauma through creativity.
“VetArt, the Veterans Art Project, the PopUp Art Cafe’s Interviews”
The guests featured in this episode are:
Darron Devillez, Carolina Hernandez, Anthony “Tony” LoBue, Reginald “Reggie” Green and Dave Fernandes.
VetArt studio 2025
Steve Dilley and Sheryl Shaffer
