Jan 14, 2019
Alisa Kennedy Jones is a writer for TV and theater, with credits including A Girl and a Gun and Ulutwati. She also has a background working in digital advertising, branding and strategy for clients such as GE, Coca-Cola, Tommy Hilfiger, Disney, Electronic Arts, and Colgate-Palmolive. She writes the blogGotham Girl (currently almost 30,000 followers on Twitter) and is an NPR commentator who is active in the autism, human rights and neurodiversity communities. She lives in New York City.
Though Alisa equates her grand mal seizures to "swallowing a bolt of lightning," her experiences teach her to focus on the positives and embrace each new twist and turn she encounters—even when those twists include waking up from a seizure and having to relearn how to perform everyday tasks over and over again
How you can connect with Alisa: