Jason Stoffer is the Advocacy Manager and CureCast Podcast Host at Unite to Fight Paralysis. He lives in the Rockies of Northwest Montana with his wife and three children. He has a B.S. degree in Natural Sciences/Biology from the University of Alaska, Anchorage. Jason's love of outdoor adventure led him to work and play there as a mountaineer, long distance hiker, wild-land firefighter, search and rescue technician, EMT, and Law Enforcement Officer. A single vehicle rollover on his commute to work one morning resulted in an L1 Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) and paraplegia. Dissatisfaction with the state of SCI recovery options led him on a path of advocacy to increase scientific research aimed toward curative therapies. In 2019 he was the subject of the NBCLx Documentary: Life Part 2 which explored the difficulty of spinal cord injury recovery. He has raised awareness within his community through outdoor challenges like extended open-water swimming and first-ever bids like crossing the Grand Canyon by hand-cycle. Jason’s advocacy career has led him to participate on peer review and programmatic review panels for the world-class DoD Spinal Cord Injury Research Program (SCIRP) as well as participation in conversations with the Food and Drug Administration regarding regulatory policy. He has helped to organize advocates at the State level to pass medical research bills for SCI to the tune of $40M and he is organizing efforts at the Federal level to defend and broaden research grant programs and to define research priorities to reflect the needs of the SCI community.