Eryn Sepp (formerly Sanders) is a military veteran who has worked at the Center for American Progress as an assistant to John Podesta. She has written editorials and campaigned for gun control. She went to UCLA in 2010 as part of the Boots to Bruins program. ^[1]She joined the U.S. military in 2005 and was deployed to Iraq in 2007. ^[0]Some of Sepp's communications with Podesta were part of Wikileak s and included discussion of his involvement with Joule Unlimited, a Russian backed solar and biotech energy company.