The Chattanooga Area Brain Injury Association (CABIA) is pleased to announce that Chris Nowinski, sports and entertainment figure, author, and activist, will be speaking at its annual fundraiser – The Many Faces of Brain Injury - on March 27 at The Mill, located at 1601 Gulf Street in Chattanooga, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Nowinski is instrumental in bringing national attention to education and policy change about sports concussions and brain injury. He is a Harvard alumnus who earned a BA in sociology, and was an all Ivy League Conference defensive tackle for the Harvard University football team. Following graduation, he pursued professional wrestling.
Nowinski’s interests in brain injury stem from personal experience. He wrote the book “Head Games: Football’s Concussion Crisis” in 2006. Updated in 2012, it details his career-ending injury, and promotes understanding of the dangers of concussion in contact sports. In 2012, his book was adapted into an award-winning documentary film.
Nowinski co-founded the Sports Legacy Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to solving the sports concussion crisis through education, policy, and research. He serves as a co-director of the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, and as an advisor on the NFL Players Association Mackey-White Traumatic Brain Injury Committee and the Ivy League Multi Sports Concussion Committee. Nowinski is the narrator for the Center for Disease Control’s online training for concussions. He’s also working toward his Ph.D. in Behavioral Neuroscience at Boston University School of Medicine. In 2012, Nowinski received the United States Sports Academy Distinguished Service Award, and the Sport at its Best Award as a Player Safety Advocate from Ralph Nader’s League of Fans.
The Chattanooga Area Brain Injury Association is dedicated to providing education, information, resources, support, and advocacy to those who have a brain injury and to their families. CABIA works with all ages. The association help persons with brain injuries and their families make connections; return to home, school, and work; apply for needed services; and obtain available resources. Services are provided free of charge. CABIA’s goal is to provide hope and improve the quality of life for those who have been affected by a brain injury. The association also provides education and training on preventing brain injuries. For more information, call Lisa Morgan at 634-1572, or visit www.cabiatn.org.
Individual seats are $60; a table of eight is $480. This is CABIA’s major fundraising event.
Source: Chattanooga Brain Injury Association