Matt Zeller
Author, CEO, and Afghan War Veteran
Matt Zeller is an author, Afghan war veteran, and CEO of No One Left Behind. He was deployed to Afghanistan in Ghazni Province in 2008, and upon his return to the US, he worked for the CIA. He was also the Democratic nominee for New York’s 29th district in the 2010 special election for the US House of Representatives.
In 2013 Zeller founded No One Left Behind, a nonprofit organization aiming to assist Afghan and Iraqi interpreters immigrating to the United States. This organization provides assistance to these immigrants in obtaining their Special Immigrant Visas while providing financial aid, employment opportunities, and used cars.
Matt Zeller is the author of Watches Without Time: An American Soldier in Afghanistan a story that gives a vivid description of what Zeller experienced while serving as an embedded combat adviser to the Afghan Security forces in Ghazni, Afghanistan, in 2008. Matt Zeller is also a contributor to HuffPost.
On August 25, 2021, Matt Zeller participated in Afghanistan with Ambassador Peter Galbraith and the Honorable Mike Rogers
