Guest Profile

Tish Hevel

Tish Hevel is the Founder/CEO of The Brain Donor Project, a non-profit organization that exclusively supports the brain banks of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the NeuroBioBank. The Brain Donor Project was established in 2016 to raise awareness of the critical need for donated brain tissue to advance the science of brain disease and to simplify the process of becoming a brain donor. To date, more than 21,000 people have taken the steps to become a brain donor when the time comes. The Brain Donor Project was inspired by the death of Tish’s dad who died from Lewy Bodies Dementia and was a brain donor himself in 2015.>P> Tish has decades of experience as a journalist and communicator, and she is a passionate advocate educating people about the critical need for brain donation. An Emmy award-winning broadcast journalist, Tish also worked internationally as a public relations professional and as Chief Communication Officer for a 44-county region of the American Red Cross.