Anita Scharis Blom has stuttered since she was 9. She is born and raised in the Netherlands, but now married and living in Sweden, works as a substitute teacher and IT support at a school for adults as well as a secretary for their private company. Beside her 12 year old daughter, her saxophone playing in a local band and her private website on stuttering, she is a board member at the local chapter, chair person for the national stuttering association, vice chair of the European League of Stuttering Associations and a member of the advisory board of the International Stuttering Association. She has been a project manager for different local and national stuttering information projects and is an appreciated local, national and international key note speaker. Her aim is to put stuttering on the political agenda, to raise awareness among all people surrounding us who stutter and to give stuttering a face, full of hope for the future
