Amy Forsythe is an award-winning military photojournalist who served as a U.S. Marine for nearly 18 years and retired from the U.S. Navy Reserve as a Public Affairs Officer in 2025. She served five combat tours and has been on assignment for several other overseas missions during her military career.

Amy is the author of “Heroes Live Here: A Tribute to Camp Pendleton Marines” which started as a passion project to showcase the memorials and markers on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. It turned into a collaborative work of art that honors our fallen Marines of the post-9/11 generation.

She was named as Success Magazine’s Top 50 Women of Influence in 2022 and was also inducted into the San Diego County Women’s Hall of Fame in the ‘Historian’ category in 2023.

After experiencing the profound benefits of psychedelic-assisted therapy, Amy became passionate about these medicines and the benefits they hold for other veterans struggling with PTSD, TBI, and other unresolved traumas.

Amy earned her undergraduate degree from Cal State San Marcos in 2005 and a masters degree from University of San Diego in 2009. She’s special correspondent for KOCT, a local Oceanside TV station, and her passion is working with non-profit organizations like Mission to Live Foundation to promote services and resources to veterans in the San Diego area.