Adriana Jimenez

Adriana Jimenez is originally from Mexico and a resident of Los Angeles County. She is the founder of the Give for a Smile agency, where she has developed the Parkinson’s Ambassador Promotores initiative since 2011. Her personal experience began with her father’s Parkinson’s disease. This is when she realized that there are no Spanish-language resources available for Latino communities, so she took the initiative to educate herself and inform her community about what Parkinson’s is and how families living with Parkinson’s can maintain a good quality of life. She has developed various programs such as Un Regalo para ti (A Gift for You) and the Ibero-American Parkinson’s Conferences. She presented the Parkinson’s Ambassador Promotores program at the World Parkinson Congress in 2023 and organized the 1st International Parkinson’s Meeting in Guadalajara, Jalisco.