Epilepsy Blog Relay: Living Well With Epilepsy is nominated for a Her Abilities Award

This post is part of the Epilepsy Blog Relay™, which will run from November 1 to November 30, 2018.  Follow along!

I am thrilled to share with the Living Well With Epilepsy community that because of my work with the site, I have been nominated for the Her Abilities Award 2018.

The Her Abilities Award

Her Abilities is the first global award honoring the achievements of women with disabilities. The international disability and development organization Light for the World is the founder of the award. With this award, the organization aims to honor women with disabilities who achieved greatness in their life and field of work. There were 158 women nominated from all continents and from 52 countries all over the world – among them Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Mozambique, Burkina Faso, Austria, UK, Bolivia, Ethiopia, Vietnam, India, Norway, Cameroon, Kenya and the United States.

The jury is in the process of reviewing more than 300 nominations. The winners will be announced on December 3rd. You can learn more at her-abilities-award.org and on their Social Media Channels.

More in 2019

The organization is are proud to announce that Her Abilities will continue in 2019. Light for the World encourages everyone to take part again!

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Jessica K. Smith Founder and CEO; Executive Director

Jessica Keenan Smith is a patient advocate and epilepsy community leader with more than 15 years of experience. As Founder and CEO of Living Well With Epilepsy and Executive Director of ASENT she bridges the gap between the scientific and patient communities, with a particular focus on the needs of the epilepsies. Jessica Keenan Smith is Founder and CEO of Living Well With Epilepsy, an award winning online resource for people affected by epilepsy to share stories and access in-depth information on the disease. Since 2009, Living Well With Epilepsy (https://livingwellwithepilepsy.com) has been featured in Forbes, Wired, NBC, NPR and the cover story of Epilepsy Advocate Magazine and has partnered with companies such as UCB, Lundbeck, Sunovion, Eisai, and more. Ms. Smith is also the Executive Director of the American Society for Experimental Neurotherapeutics (ASENT) (https://asent.org), an organization that brings together leaders from industry, academia, government and advocacy who are engaged in bringing drugs and devices to market across all neurologic disease states. In this role she is responsible for leading a successful scientific journal and annual scientific conference with speakers from all over the world.

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