Ann Wright served 29 years in the US Army/Army Reserve and retired as a colonel. She was also a U.S. diplomat for 16 years but resigned in 2003 in opposition to the U.S. war on Iraq.  She is a coordinator with U.S. Boats to Gaza and on the Steering committee of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. She has been in Israeli prison two times and deported from Israel twice for sailing on the Gaza flotillas.  She has participated in flotillas in 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2018 and was in Istanbul (2024), Malta (2025) and Sicily (2025) for flotilla attempts at sailing to break the illegal Israeli blockade of Gaza. She was also a coordinator of the 2009 Gaza Freedom March that brought 1,350 persons from 55 countries to Cairo to enter Gaza on the first anniversary of the horrific Israeli Cast Lead attack on Gaza that killed 1,400 and left over 100,000 Palestinians homeless.