Ms. Garrick founded Whistleblowers of America (WoA) as a nonprofit in 2017, which provides voluntary peer support to those suffering the impacts of Workplace Traumatic Stress. She developed the Whistleblower Retaliation Checklist© (WRC) to identify negative psychosocial impacts on victimized employees and provides forensic testimony. She is on the Board of Directors for Brighton Marine, a homeless program in Boston. Over the last few years, Professor Garrick, has taught for the University of Southern California, School of Social Work and has supervised interns from the University of West Florida. She is also founder of the Workplace Promise Institute opened in Pensacola, FL in 2021, which is also the title of the annual conference WoA hosts.

Previously, she served as a US Army Social Work Officer and in executive positions at the American Legion, the Departments of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Defense (DoD) and with the US Congress House Committee on Veterans Affairs. Her areas of expertise include policy and program development for disabled veterans/wounded warriors, whistleblower mental health, suicide prevention, and organizational leadership development. She is a recognized public servant with awards from several distinguished organizations. She is the founder of the FAR Group, which provides consultation to public and private organizations that need development, advocacy, and educational support.

Ms. Garrick is a published authored, media source, and an international public speaker having also worked on projects in the former Soviet Union, for the US military in Germany and Afghanistan, and the World Health Organization in Switzerland. She has been an invited speaker in the United Kingdom, South Africa, Greece, and Israel because of her co-authored book, The Psychosocial Impacts of Whistleblower Retaliation.

She is a social work master’s graduate from Temple University and is currently enrolled in a doctorate program at Middlesex University. Additional career training was at Johns Hopkins and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She is a licensed social worker (LCSW-C) in MD and is credentialed through the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM-CP), a Board-Certified Expert in Traumatic Stress (BCETS) and Whistleblower Protection Advocate (WPA).