A world free of Lyme+ disease
Combating Lyme & tick-borne disease (Lyme+) through community storytelling & education
Combating Lyme & tick-borne disease (Lyme+) through community storytelling & education
Founded in 2024, LymeLnk began as a social venture out of The New School’s Impact Entrepreneurship Fellowship, where founder Eva Scarano is pursuing a Master's of Strategic Design & Management from Parsons School of Design. Eva has lived with chronic Lyme+ for the past eight years, an experience marked by the isolation of living with an invisible illness.
“But you look so good?”
At her worst, Eva couldn’t remember what she had done in class the day before or make it through a day without napping. She was in non-stop pain from early-onset arthritis, another Lyme+ triggered condition alongside Celiac disease, anxiety, insomnia, and depression. Struggling to explain not only her experience, but also the misunderstood disease with little resonance, was perhaps harder than the symptoms themselves.
“Chronic Lyme isn’t real.”
LymeLNK was created to ensure that others affected by this invisible, misunderstood illness are not alone. Mobilizing large-scale support, LymeLnk will amplify awareness and funding efforts beyond the immediate Lyme community, to create a world free of Lyme+.
Building relationships & gathering stories to empower community storytellers to revise the Lyme+ narrative & scale awareness for systemic change
Partnering with experts across the ecosystem to co-create content, tailoring delivery to target archetypes to reach them where they are
Creating a new donation market though engaging events & revenue streams to bring in funds from outside the community
Founder & Executive Director
Director of Finance & Operations
Director of Design & Marketing
