Seth Meyers, Jake Gyllenhaal Support Free Therapy for Veterans
- Stars have helped Headstrong Project expand from New York City
- ‘Trauma is treatable’ says founder, former Marine Zach Iscol
Seth Meyers and Alexi Ashe
Photographer: Amanda Gordon/BloombergWhen Zach Iscol founded the Headstrong Project more than five years ago to provide mental health care to veterans like himself, he couldn’t have known how helpful his social capital would be.
Most nonprofits only dream of having talents like Seth Meyers and Jake Gyllenhaal headline their benefit year after year. Iscol, a former Marine, counts both as friends through childhood summers spent on Martha’s Vineyard. That’s where he met Gyllenhaal and lawyer Alexi Ashe, who introduced him to Meyers when she started dating the comedian (now her husband) about a decade ago.