In this minisode of Celiac Straight Talk, Beyond Celiac CEO Alice Bast speaks with Casey Walters about the challenges of having a young child with celiac disease. Alice’s personal journey as a celiac disease survivor and champion for research in this field, coupled with her prior experience of more than two decades in healthcare business development and marketing, taught her that patients need to be educated and empowered with solid information in order to make decisions about their desired health outcomes. Casey is a PR professional with experience working in the consumer technology space handling media relations, message and platform development, event management and trade show execution, product launches, content creation and development of traditional and social media relations campaigns. Her experience spans a wide variety of consumer and technology brands. To hear more episodes of Celiac Straight Talk, visit https://www.beyondceliac.org/news-events/podcast-series/.