Category: Featured Advocate Stories

To help drive the efforts of the Rare Action Network℠, NORD launched the State Ambassador Program. State Ambassadors are volunteers in a leadership position responsible for establishing and building a strong grassroots network of rare disease advocates within their state to help increase awareness of rare diseases and the challenges patients and their families face. […]

Greetings from Tallahassee, As Einstein famously postulated, time is relative. I will make use of this fact to take you back in time to my visit to Tallahassee, Florida (schedules prevented our advocate and me from posting a few days ago). I like Tallahassee, it is one of few state capitals with the vibe of […]

Greetings from Denver, As the road tour heads further west, the distances between stops grow longer and longer. More time in the car means less time to blog. But, 10 hours and 632 miles later I made it to Denver. It was somewhat of a tedious drive with nothing much to gaze at, however, the payoff was worth it; […]

Greetings from Atlanta, Georgia. I am happy to introduce NORD’s State Ambassador for Georgia, Beth Nguyen. Beth is a registered nurse and Executive Director of Worldwide Syringomyelia & Chiari Task Force (a NORD member organization).  As a NORD State Ambassador, Beth is hoping to advance provider education for Syringomyelia and all rare diseases. Beth will be working to […]