Demond Mullins received his PhD in Sociology from The  Graduate Center of the City University of New York  (CUNY) in 2013. He is a combat veteran of the Iraq War,  where he served as a Armor Crewman in OIF II. After  service Demond became a National Spokesman for Iraq  Veterans Against the War (IVAW) and worked as a United  States Senate staffer on veterans health and education issues.  

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Demond is an enthusiastic outdoorsman and conducts  social research on the benefits of outdoor recreation,  particularly mountaineering. In 2015, he conducted an  ethnographic study of a group of combat veterans  during their summit bid of Denali. He has also summited  Kilimanjaro and Mt. Kenya.