July 29, 2019
InvisiYouth Charity has felt the love this summer as it was announced InvisiYouth Charity got two nominations with the 2019 WEGO Health Awards. Our video podcast series, InvisiYouth Chat Sessions, was nominated for Best in Show: Podcast, and our Founder/Executive Director, Dominique Viel, was nominated for Patient Leader Hero. WEGO Health is a company that connects millions of engaged healthcare consumers by allowing networks of leading patient advocates to work and collaborate across health conditions, disciplines, and topics.
Every year since 2011, WEGO Health has hosted their awards, a celebration of the world’s leading healthcare advocates, especially in the virtual space! And you know how much we love a good virtual activism platform—just take a look at our video podcast series, downloadable resources and advocacy campaigns! Categories range from Best Video Series and Best Team Performance, to Best Instagram, Healthcare Collaboration Patient, Advocating for One Another and Best Kept Secret.
There are over 6,000 nominees across 15 categories which go through a month of endorsements from the general public and then a judging panel help narrow it down to the short-list nominees per category. And it is from this that the ultimate winners are selected and get to go to Las Vegas, Nevada in October for the actual ceremony.
And what makes these award nominations for Dominique and InvisiYouth Chat Sessions so amazing is that a couple of our Global Brand Leaders are also nominees! Last year, Global Brand Leader-All Star Effie Koliopoulos from Chicago, IL was the winner for Rookie of the Year 2018! This year, our Global Brand Leader Mikaela Basile from Canada is nominated for Best Instagram, while our Global Brand Leader-All Star Madi Vanstone, also from Canada, is nominated for Patient Leader Hero, Best in Show: Podcast, and Advocating for Another.
To see such a strong pull of InvisiYouth Charity team members in the WEGO Health Awards is incredible because it shows how much our activism style affects the larger chronic illness and disability community to nominate all of them.
Lastly, we want to thank YOU for all the endorsements for us! To win these awards would be a dream, and it will definitely give more exposure to InvisiYouth’s programming and in return, give us opportunities for charitable sponsorships and partnerships to reach even more older youth with chronic illnesses and disabilities around the world. So what’s next? Will Dominique, our video podcast series, and our Global Brand Leaders win these WEGO Health Awards? Time will tell and we will keep you in the loop, but nonetheless, nominations are so humbling and we are honored.