Awareness is key to realizing AFTD’s mission – and when people share stories of the impact FTD has had in their lives in a public fashion, it goes such a long way toward teaching others about this disease. When their friend Laury Sacks began to experience symptoms of what would later be diagnosed as the primary progressive aphasia form of FTD, she enlisted her friends Pamela Hogan and Connie Shulman (best-known for her role as the character Yoga Jones on Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black) to document her and her family’s journey with FTD. For more on this story, and to read the interview, click here.