Bruin Vets and Curb College bring you an opportunity to learn about the relationship between songwriting and how it’s an important part helping Veterans and many others soothe the mind from trauma, with a surprise performance!!

Richard Casper is a United States Marine Veteran, Purple Heart recipient, songwriter, and Entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of We Should Write Sometime, a tech start up that helps songwriters connect, and CreatiVets, a non profit that empowers wounded veterans to heal through the arts and music. As a songwriter Richard has had over 50 placements in Film and television and has written with multiple artist and hit songwriters such as Justin Moore, Craig Morgan, Tyler Farr, Granger Smith, Jimmie Allen and more.

Richard was named one of TIME magazine’s Next Generation Leaders, is the feature of TIME’s documentary Evidence of Things Unseen, and recognized by President George W. Bush and The Bush Institute for his passion and work helping combat veterans. He was one of thirty-three scholars chosen to be in President Bush’s inaugural Stand-To Veteran Leadership Program.

Richard served in the USMC from 2003-2007. In 2006-2007 during his tour in Iraq, Richard survived four IED blasts which left him with a left-traumatic brain injury. After nearly giving up, he discovered art and song-writing as therapeutic forms of expression, and went on to attend and graduate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From his experiences, he later created art and songwriting programs for CreatiVets to help other wounded veterans heal. In 2020 he signed a deal with Big Machine records to start releasing veteran created music to the world.

Richard has taught art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Virginia Commonwealth University, Belmont University, and the University of Southern California. He is a keynote speaker, artist, and entrepreneur. He resides in Nashville TN with his wife Ashley and son Barrett