Jill Escher: President of the National Council on Severe Autism
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This week on The Hamilton Review Podcast, we welcome Jill Escher to the show!  Jill is the president of the National Council on Severe Autism. In this episode, Jill gives us an in-depth look on everything we need to know about children affected by autism.  This is a must listen conversation, friends.  Jill Escher is president of the National Council on Severe Autism (NCSAutism.org), past president of Autism Society San Francisco Bay Area (SFAutismSociety.org), and a prominent autism research philanthropist through the Escher Fund for Autism (EscherFund.org). Jill served as the first non-scientist elected to the governing council of the Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society. Deeply involved in the autism community, she is known both for her outspoken advocacy on housing and supports, as well as her community service, which includes co-chairing the annual Adult Autism Conference at Stanford University, and providing more than 50 informational and recreational events per year for the Bay Area autism community. A former lawyer, she is a graduate of the UC Berkeley School of Law and Stanford University. She and her husband have two children with severe, nonverbal forms of autism and live in the San Francisco Bay Area. How to contact Jill Escher: Jill Escher on Twitter Facebook   How to contact Dr. Bob Hamilton: Dr. Bob on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChztMVtPCLJkiXvv7H5tpDQ Dr. Bob on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drroberthamilton/ Dr. Bob on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bob.hamilton
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