Jennifer Handt
Cognoscenti contributor
Jennifer Handt is a writer and communications advisor who helps people and organizations share big ideas. She is the founder of Charlie’s Cure, dedicated to fueling research and finding a cure for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. A Bostonian at heart, Jennifer lives with her family in Connecticut.
Recently published
Netflix’s ‘Joy’ tells the story of families like mine
Science made me a mother, writes Jennifer Handt. And while nothing about the process felt particularly easy, natural or guaranteed, I never had to wonder whether it could work because...
Hope is its own form of healing
My son received a death sentence as a toddler, writes Jennifer Handt — a diagnosis of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. A new gene therapy offers hope, if she can get the...
I eventually got the miscarriage care I needed. But the post-Roe world is crueler to people like me
Sometimes the miscarriage memo is slow to arrive naturally, and medicine must intervene, writes Jennifer Handt. Sometimes women in my position need what is arguably an abortion.
'Grief So Transporting It Feels Almost Sacred': Why Chrissy Teigen's Story Is Helpful To So Many Women
Miscarriage is incredibly common -- but rarely talked about. We should applaud Chrissy Teigen for opening up about her loss, writes Jennifer Handt, not scold her for oversharing.
What To Expect When You're No Longer Expecting
I often struggle to find a comfortable balance between adherence to social mores and openness about this big, brutal thing that’s rocked my world.
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