Richard Leslie
Founder/Executie Director of WEA

Richard Leslie is the Founder/Executive Director of the Wyoming Epilepsy Association. Mr. Leslie advocates, educates and researches areas that focus on improving epilepsy and healthcare services in Wyoming. Mr. Leslie is currently active on various boards: State of Wyoming Health Advisory Council, Wyoming Health Access Network, Patient Advocacy Leadership Network. As well as being a major part in other board in the past ten years: Community Action of Laramie County, Governor’s Planning Council on Developmental Disabilities, Cheyenne Health and Wellness Center, and the University of Wyoming’s Institute for Disabilities. By being an active member of these boards, he has been inspired to work towards improving the over all healthcare of Wyoming. Mr. Leslie is 2007 Alumni of the Leadership Wyoming program and 2007 recipient of the Wyoming Governor’s Council on Developmental Disabilities Ralph Snyder “Everyday Hero” Award and was nominated for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Community Health Leaders Award.

Rose Sanders
Treasurer/Secretary & AmeriCorps VISTA

Rose Sanders has 4 children, 8 Grandchildren, 8 Great Grandchildren. What fun they are! She has been an LPN for over 30 years. Working in Geriatrics, Med-Surg, Surgery, Dermatology. A very interesting career.
In August she became an AmeriCorps VISTA, with a goal - to spread the word throughout Wyoming that Wyoming Epilepsy is here to provide people with epilepsy information about advocacy, support, and education on epilepsy in general.

Brian Lund
Board Member/Epilepsy Advocate

Brian Lund is 50 years old and is a Board Member and Epilepsy Advocate for the Wyoming Epilepsy Association. Brian knows how badly people with epilepsy are treated in our world from childhood to an adult. He says this because he was diagnosed with Epilepsy shortly after birth. Since an infant, Brian suffered from seizures throughout his school years up until 6 months before his 40th birthday. Medications never controlled his seizures; he had brain surgery in July, 1985 where the right temporal lobe of his brain was removed.
After the surgery Brian was seizure free a year before they started again. Back on medications which never helped control them, Brian found strength and went through more testing in 1999 and 2000 prior to a second brain surgery in July of 2000 where the right Hippocampus of his brain was removed. The Doctor that did the surgery in 2000 stated: Brian could be seizure free; he has been seizure free since 2000.
As a member of different support groups, the one Brian is most proud of is the Students with Disabilities Committee at Casper College which Brian founded and served as President of from October, 1985 - May, 1988. Thanks to Brian's work, a committee was developed to make the campus handicap accessible through the purchase of a bus with a wheel chair lift, installation of electronic doors on buildings and the placement of elevators in all buildings with one floor or more. Brian has the strength and incentive needed to get the word out of what Epilepsy truly is.

Jessica Starks
Board Member/Administrative Assistant

Jessica Starks serves on the Board of Directors for the Wyoming Epilepsy Association. This is the second time that she has been on the board. She served on the original board when the foundation started in 2000. Jessica is a woman who has epilepsy and wants to help other women understand that they are not alone here in Wyoming. Jessica has volunteered over the years, and in that time, she has learned more about Epilepsy and treatment of Epilepsy. Jessica has had Epilepsy for 32 years; it started when she was a year old. Jessica has two kids who are under the custody of her parents due to her severe Epilepsy.