Living fully with CMT is both a personal journey and a professional mission for Laurel Richardson, CMTA’s Director of Community Outreach. In this episode of Simply CMT, Laurel shares how Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT) has shaped her life and how bracing helped her reclaim her quality of life.
She also reflects on what drives her work at CMTA and how programs like Camp Footprint, local CMTA Branches, and COMPASS, CMTA’s young adult program, empower the CMT community. Laurel closes by previewing the 2025 CMTA Patient and Research Summit in Indianapolis.
At CMTA, community is everything, and from her lived experiences with CMT to the CMTA programs she helps lead, Laurel offers a thoughtful look at how people with CMT can find support and connection through CMTA’s community programs.
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