Community Stories

I am so grateful for the awareness Michael J. Fox has brought to this disease and for the incredible progress the Foundation has made toward finding a cure. Studies like PPMI are critical to doing that.

Grieving someone who is still alive asks us to live inside contradiction — learning to sit with the unknown and to search for meaning within unexpected loss.

When it comes to giving back, I feel like it’s my duty as a citizen of the world, because when it comes to ending Parkinson’s, we’re all in this together.

Our calls and the hearing testimony helped the Kentucky legislature understand that Parkinson’s disease looks different for every person. No two people have the same causes, symptoms, progression or response to treatment.

When you know your gift can create real impact, it brings you joy — and that’s exactly how I feel supporting this research.