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February 10, 2016

SafeMinds Executive Director Asks IACC to Establish Four Workgroups to Inform Its Strategic Plan

SafeMinds Executive Director Testifies at IACC Meeting. To view full video click on arrow above. Ms. Wiederlight’s testimony starts at 03:26:00 SafeMinds Executive Director Lisa Wiederlight testified in front of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) in January to ask its members to immediately establish the four work groups SafeMinds recommended at the November 16, […]

February 10, 2016

SafeMinds Executive Director Lisa Wiederlight’s Testimony at January 2016 IACC Meeting

My name is Lisa Wiederlight. I am the mother of a 15 year old son with autism, and executive director of SafeMinds, a national nonprofit organization whose mission is to end the autism epidemic by promoting environmental research and effective treatments. In November, I asked this Committee to form four workgroups to address the urgency […]

December 28, 2015

SafeMinds Recommends Four Work Groups to IACC at Recent Meeting

By Lisa Wiederlight, SafeMinds executive director   I had never been to a meeting of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) in person because I had always found the discussions and presentations I saw while watching online to be very “ivory tower.”  That is, I didn’t think that what was being discussed would, in any […]

April 30, 2015

Announcing Our New Executive Director: Lisa Wiederlight

Dear Friends of SafeMinds, I am delighted to share some exciting news with you today. We have a new executive director here at SafeMinds, Lisa Wiederlight. Lisa brings tremendous energy, commitment, and passion in the fight to end the autism epidemic by promoting environmental research and effective treatment, as well as a wealth of experience […]

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