Jake Wood, a 2005 UW-Madison graduate and president of a veterans? service organization, will speak at UW-Madison?s winter commencement ceremony on Dec. 18. Wood played on the Badgers offensive line from 2001 to 2004. He served four years in the U.S. Marine Corps and was deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan. He co-founded Team Rubicon following the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti to provide military veterans with an opportunity to use their skills in disaster zones.
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