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Mary Lou Connolly is a registered nurse with a master's degree in community health. She is a mother of two children, Meaghan and Michael, and wife of husband Barry. Michael, now 24, was diagnosed with epilepsy at age 5. She wrote a book, Missing Michael, (available in Epilepsy Foundations' Marketplace), sharing her family's intensely personal story in an effort to reach even more people about epilepsy's profound impact upon lives. She has been a board member of the Epilepsy Foundation of San Diego for 9 years.

Ken Lowenberg is the Senior Director of Communications with the Epilepsy Foundation National Office. He has worked at the Epilepsy Foundation for over 12 years where he has been proactive in epilepsy education and awareness. "Let's Talk" is a companion piece to TalkAboutIt.org, a website that hopes to make a global impact in helping the world learn about epilepsy and engage people to talk about it .

Posted by Lisa Boylan

Lisa Boylan is the senior editor of the Foundation’s magazine, epilepsyUSA. She has been at the Foundation for over three years and is committed to getting personal stories out about epilepsy as well as covering the most relevant news items in the media and politics for the epilepsy community. She enjoys working directly with people in the epilepsy community because she knows sharing their stories is an integral way of putting a human face on a disorder that is often feared and misunderstood.