Renegade Reporting With Stephen Seidel

ABOUT TODAY’S EPISODE: This week we had the pleasure of speaking with Zach Jordan (@ZachJordan), Co-founder of MyAlzheimers.net about the epidemic of our lifetime, which costs the United States over $236 Billion per year. After producing the award-winning documentary film, Carpe Kilimanjaro, Zach and his producing partner Peter Schankowitz set out to deliver the largest repository of Alzheimer stories. Their goal is to remove the stigma to build a community, raise money for research, and get more patients into clinical trails. TOPICS COVERED: Carpe Kilimanjaro documented Zach’s physical mountain ascension, metaphorical climb into fatherhood and his father’s downward spiral into Alzheimers net is a niche, social network aiming to become the world’s largest collection of Alzheimer stories By next year, their goal is to compile over 10K videos ‘Humans of New York’ Project demonstrates the power behind narrative Empowering users to eradicate the disease by sharing stories Humans of New York (@humansofny) raised