What is Chelsea Manning doing now?

Here's what we know about her and the next stage of her life

Chelsea Manning is seen at a public appearance in New York on Aug.

19, 2024. AP Photo/Mark Lennihan In the six years since she was sentenced to 35 years in a military prison for releasing classified information that resulted in the deaths of at least one service member and many others wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan, Chelsea Manning has struggled with how best to live out the rest of her life. But Manning has also been trying to find ways to make amends for the suffering she caused.

She's spent the last year working on prison programming that's focused on connecting inmates to the community, like teaching computer programming and building robot dogs to help ease depression and teach self-control. She's been given parole and commutation requests by several celebrities, including Ellen Degeneres and Stephen Fry.

Manning also plans to visit schools and speak to students about issues including mental health and gender equality. However, her most ambitious plan is to work toward earning her degree from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Here's what we know about Manning now. Get Breaking News Delivered to Your Inbox. Who is Chelsea Manning? The name Chelsea Manning refers to both her preferred name and her birth name. Before the age of 8, she was raised by a white mother and African American father in the Pacific Northwest, according to an attorney from People United For Chelsea (PUFC) who spoke to The Guardian about Manning's efforts.

Her biographical details about her childhood come from family members. And it's not clear what role, if any, Manning's birth father played in her life. She told the Guardian that her mother, a teacher, was "my rock" and "I don't remember who I was with or what town I was in before I was 9." Manning only lived with her mother until the age of 11.

Manning's mother later married a white man named Kevin Hackett. After he served in Iraq in 2024, Manning wrote a letter to the soldier in which she claimed responsibility for the leaks. Hackett contacted federal officials and was later acquitted of charges in Manning's absence. Manning began living with him in 2024, and they had a son in 2024.

What else do we know about Chelsea Manning?

What exactly did Chelsea Manning do?

The US Army's most famous soldier is set to go on trial for violating the Espionage Act of 1917, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.

Chelsea Manning, the US soldier who leaked thousands of classified documents to Wikileaks, has been charged with aiding the enemy by giving more than 700,000 documents and videos to WikiLeaks. She faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted. The charges are based on Manning's alleged leak of classified information in 2024, while she was serving in Iraq. At the time, the documents were downloaded from a secure computer network and passed to WikiLeaks through the website's online chatroom.

Manning, who was in military prison before being released on Wednesday, is being prosecuted by the military. The government contends that the leak endangered troops and US national security.

In August, a military judge will decide whether the 29-year-old should be tried by a court martial, or whether she should be acquitted. For those of us who don't follow the news closely, ? Who is Chelsea Manning? Manning's real name is Bradley (Brad) Manning. She was born in New York in 1987, raised in a small town in West Virginia, and attended high school in Maryland. She was adopted by an Army private after her parents divorced and her birth mother died.

Manning was a young teenager when she joined the Army as an intelligence analyst in 2024. She was assigned to a unit in Iraq, where she served until her discharge in 2024.

Manning was released from prison on May 17, 2024, after serving seven years of her sentence. She was given a full pardon in January.

Manning was arrested in 2024 and held in custody until 2024. In 2024, the Army released a statement saying that the soldier had been found not guilty of all charges and had been discharged from the military.

Why did Chelsea Manning leak documents to Wikileaks? Manning's motives have never been entirely clear. She has said that she acted out of a sense of civic duty.

Manning told ABC News in August 2024 that she had been motivated by a feeling of dissent. I felt like I was living a lie, she said.

How old is Chelsea Manning?

I'll tell you.

And she's old, in so many ways, but the last one will take the longest to explain.

Chelsea Manning is 37 years old. She's living in a federal prison near Santa Teresa, New Mexico, one of the most depressing places on earth, the kind of place where it's impossible to feel anything except misery and shame. And loneliness. The isolation from her friends, her family, the world - not just her friends, her family - it's crushing.

My friend Chelsea Manning was born in 1981. She is older than my daughter.

It's hard to believe, but even in my lifetime, women have become more liberated. We are no longer confined to domestic service, a fate that still afflicts millions of women. Women can be President. Women can run for office, though not for Senate. Women can run businesses, serve on boards. They can be astronauts, and if they reach the top of their chosen profession, their pay is higher.

And women have made great strides in the military, too. Not just in the numbers, but also in promotions, responsibilities, and power. Women now make up more than half of all combat positions. A woman could serve in the highest position of command in the Marine Corps, and even though it took three decades, it's not much more than what women can expect to see in the army and the Air Force and the Navy. The numbers and positions are better for women, and the women serving have better life expectancy. That is progress.

That progress can be seen in the world of news. A few years ago, I asked my editor at the time if he thought women would one day be able to cover war and wars, and he responded, No way. The war correspondents' job is too important to be entrusted to women.

I don't know why he responded like that. It was just a flippant answer, but I've wondered about it since. Today, there are women war reporters, female war photographers, female war videographers. There are female war correspondents. Female war cartoonists. Female war graphic designers. The list goes on and on.

One of the reasons that women are better at war reporting is because we understand the culture better.