Regional Walk & Roll Brain Injury Fundraiser Back In Framingham

FRAMINGHAM, MA—The Brain Injury Association of Massachusetts (BIA-MA) is holdings its fourth year of Walk & Roll fundraiser events. This year, BIA-MA returns to Framingham State University in Framingham, MA, for its second event on Sunday, Sept. 23, starting at 9:30 a.m.

Participants throughout Massachusetts are encouraged to attend as BIA-MA returns to the same venue as previous years. Residents can register as individuals, set up a team, start a fundraising page or provide a one-time donation.

“We are tremendously excited to come back to Framingham State and invite everyone in Massachusetts to join us for our second walk of the season,” BIA-MA Executive Director Nicole Godaire said in a statement. “This is a time to celebrate the lives of those affected by brain injury and gather for a time of healing, advocacy, and awareness.”

One of the participants in the walk is Tim Shotmeyer of Marblehead, according to the announcement. Diagnosed with his first concussion as an infant, Shotmeyer has sustained 17 concussions over his life; the most recent in a car accident in 2014. It was just this year that Shotmeyer was connected to BIA-MA, after a conversation with U.S. Representative and friend Bill Pascrell, who founded the Congressional Brain Injury Task Force in 2001.

Since, Shotmeyer has become actively involved with the organization, attending support groups, even accompanying BIA-MA staff to the Massachusetts State House to support brain injury advocacy efforts. He will be speaking at this year’s walk, and it will be his first time attending.

“[BIA-MA] has helped to get me in the right direction, and the opportunities provided have allowed me to see that I still had some of the old Tim in me,” Shotmeyer said in a statement. “[BIA-MA] has allowed for us to be able to tell our stories.”

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