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American journalist and activist

Jūratė Kristina Kazickas-Altman (born February 18, 1943) is a retired American journalist and campaigner for refugee rights.

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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