Name Frances Clair

Age 29

Where do you call home? Chicago, IL

Who do you live with? My parents, one sister, our dog, and my cat.

What's a typical day for you? When we aren't experiencing a global pandemic, I wake up in the morning and work on fictional writing and then go to work on weekdays. I work at an after school program for elementary school children, and I am one of the adults in charge of the program at that school. I've worked there for eight years.

How long have you known you are living with FA? I was diagnosed in February 2007. About a year earlier, my pediatrician was alarmed by my lack of balance. She sent us on a hunt that ended in a blood test to diagnose FA a month before I turned 16.

Join the FARA Ambassadors for a hangout for teenagers, 13-19, with ataxia (of any form). FA Teen Hangouts are hour-long web-based hangouts. If you don't have ataxia, you are not allowed to participate in the hangout. This is simply a place to meet and talk to other people who may be going through struggles and good times similar to you. There will also be at least three adult FARA Ambassadors present. The adults will be there to help keep the conversation safe and going.

May's hangout theme will be: Show us Your True Colors with your Zoom background and/or your custom facemask.

Name: Ilva Johannsdottir Madsen

Age: 20 years old

Where do you call home? I am born and raised in the south of Norway. At the moment I live in Oslo.

Education degree(s): I recently started at the university. I study the French language at the moment, but I want to study something else this fall. Maybe art or something like that. I haven't totally figured out my future yet, but my goal is to write a book and to design my own clothing line.

Who do you live with? I currently live by myself in a student apartment.

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.