Lindahl, Lisa
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content: Disability Reference Collection
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content: 1988 - 2002
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: NMAH.AC.1319, Series 10
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content: Archival materials
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content: Lisa Lindahl was diagnosed with epilepsy when she was three.  An active leader and spokesperson for the Epilepsy Foundation of America and the Epilepsy Foundation of Vermont, Lindahl encouraged research that led to improving the understanding and care of women who live with epilepsy.

In the late 1970s Lindahl co-designed and co-invented with Hinda Miller and Polly Palmer Smith the first sports bra, "Jogbra." She then co-founded and co-ran with Hinda Miller a successful business, JBI, Inc., that sold the garment. The company was bought in 1990 by Playtex.

The series consists primarily of speeches Lindahl deleivered at various conferences, newspaper clippings about Lisa Lindahl, and audio and video materials related to speeches, workshops, and conferences Lindahl attended and particpated inas a featured speaker.  Also included is Epilepsy Foundation promotional material about the Women and Epilepsy Initiative and DVDs of interviews with Lindahl.