Tick Boot Camp

Episode 150: Advocacy Express - an interview with Alexandra Moresco and DJ McKerr

Learn how you can help influence change in the Lyme disease community!

5 years ago

Alexandra Moresco is a well-known Lyme disease activist (episode 101) married to University of Chicago MBA DJ McKerr. Ms. Moreso and Mr. McKerr merged their talents to build Advocacy Express, a tool designed to help Lyme disease patients lobby their elected representatives with letters written by policy experts to advocate for those living with tick-borne illness. If you would like to learn more about Alexandra Moresco’s pivot to entrepreneurship as a new tool in her Lyme disease toolbox, then tune in now!

Tick Boot Camp is a Lyme disease and tick-borne illness podcast featuring interviews with leading doctors, researchers, scientists, patients, advocates, and experts. Explore Lyme disease symptoms, testing, diagnosis, treatment, recovery, chronic Lyme disease, coinfections, PANS/PANDAS, MCAS, neurological symptoms, emerging research, and the latest advances in tick-borne disease care. Through expert education and powerful patient stories, Tick Boot Camp provides hope, validation, practical information, and a community for people navigating Lyme disease and complex chronic illness.