Name: Elizabeth (Liz) Anne Clark

Age: 36

Where do you call home? Worcester, Massuchusssets

Education degree(s): I have a bachelors degree in business w/ a concentration in accounting from Nichols College in Dudley, MA. I have a blog where I talk about parenting and be a woman with FA, www.accessiblevillage.com. I try to live my life being an advocate for people of all abilities and I hope to be a writer who incorporates disabilities in my writing.

Who do you live with? I am married for almost 7yr. My husband works fulltime for the MA State Police he also has a disability, a TBI. I have two sons 17 and 4. The 4 of us live in a house with an in-law apartment where my sister lives with her wife and son, a total of 7 people.

The FARA Ambassador Program presents an FA Hangout talking about: Your favorite foods! What are they? Do you follow a diet? How do you make cooking with FA easier? Tell us! May 19th and 20th!

HEADS UP! The Hangout on May 19th will be held at noon Eastern to include the international community better. May 20th will still be held at 8pm.

At FA Hangouts, we laugh, we connect, we hangout, we learn from and about each other...it is so fun! It is just an informal discussion with a theme. We just talk when the theme has run its course, no pressure. People who just want to listen are very welcome!

Every Hangout is open to anyone 18+ with FA and a translator if needed for hearing or speech difficulties. (mark your calendars, FA Hangouts will be the last consecutive Tuesday and Wednesday of the month, except on holidays and the like) at 8-9:30 PM EST.

Name: Kayla Louise Hellegers

Age: 27

Where do you call home? Blue Mountains, Sydney Australia

Education: Animal Studies and Higher School Certificate through TAFE.

Who do you live with? My mum, my dad, and my dog Jemmah.

What's a typical day for you? I get up early with dad before he goes to work. Most days, I undertake study, watch TV, play board games and make my own gift cards.

How long have you known you are living with FA? I was first diagnosed as a five-year-old in 1997, but I didn't really understand what it meant. It was confirmed through a blood test, which was fairly new at the time. I have very little memory of life prior to my diagnosis of FA.

My name is Elizabeth Bowen. I was born and raised on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. I was first diagnosed in 1998 when I was 14. I am the oldest of four and no one else in my family has had FA.

When I was 12, I wanted to be on the basketball team at school, so I went to get a sports physical and the doctor told me that I had scoliosis. My parents then took me to a doctor to address the scoliosis and due to reports of my lifelong lack of coordination and balance, what they thought was simply clumsiness, and movements the doctor noticed that I made, lead the doctors to think that there might be something else wrong and ended up testing my DNA and finding out that I had Friedreich's Ataxia. I played soccer at the time and for a while after. I also did join the basketball team when I was 12, but I turned out to be terrible at being on the court, lol.