Renee Kleszczewski brings passion and dedication to help return American service members missing in action.
Renee Kleszczewski – Project Recover Advisory Council member
Project Recover, a global nonprofit dedicated to repatriating American service members missing in action and providing answers and closure to MIA Gold Star Families, is proud to announce the appointment of Renee Kleszczewski to its Advisory Council.
“We are thrilled to welcome Renee to the Project Recover Advisory Council,” said Derek Abbey, President & CEO of Project Recover. “Renee’s passion to help return American service members missing in action and to provide closure to Gold Star families and communities across our Nation will undoubtedly help us to grow our mission.”
Renee resides in Brooklyn, NY, and is the Senior Executive Assistant to the Office of the Chief Operating Officer (COO) for Citadel.
About Project Recover
Project Recover is a nonprofit, public-private partnership involving the University of Delaware’s College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego to enlist 21st century science and technology combined with in-depth archival and historical research in a quest to find the final resting places of Americans missing in action since World War II. Project Recover is the only non-governmental organization (NGO) with full vertical capabilities in the POW/MIA recovery space that includes operational missions in both underwater and land environments.
Project Recover’s cutting-edge team of scientists, historians, archaeologists, engineers, and divers conducts research and surveys to discover new crash sites, fully document wreckage, and correlate wrecks to known MIA cases. That documentation can then be used by the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) to evaluate that site for the possible recovery of remains. DPAA is tasked with recovery and repatriation efforts, including notification of the families of these MIAs.
Project Recover has completed over 100 missions in 25 countries, discovered and documented more than 75 aircraft associated with MIAs, developed a growing database of more than 700 cases associated with more than 3,000 MIAs, accounted for over 90 missing-in-action service members, repatriated 26 American heroes, and anticipate additional identifications before the end of 2025.
