Mighty Member since January 2017
Jen Starzec is 21 years old and is from Illinois. When she was 13, she was paralyzed by a rare neuroimmunological disorder called Transverse Myelitis, which damaged her spinal cord. So far, Jen has written three books with Sarah Todd Hammer, entitled “5k, Ballet, and a Spinal Cord Injury," “Determination,” and "Up and Down," which are about their journeys with TM and AFM (www.5kballet.com). Jen currently attends the University of Wisconsin - Whitewater, where she is studying Communication Sciences and Disorders with the goal of becoming a Speech-Language Pathologist. You can check out more of Jen’s writing on her blog: www.jensjournals.com