Voices of Symposium Part One

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What does it take to uproot your life for a weekend — leave work, leave school, leave the routines that hold a family together — and fly to Las Vegas for nothing but community and education? This year, over eleven hundred people did exactly that.

In Part 1 of this three-part series, host Kai Sorensen walks the halls of the Coalition for Hemophilia B's 2026 Symposium, capturing the reunions, the quiet courage, and the everyday advocates who make this weekend feel less like a conference and more like a family reunion.

From a president returning after a liver transplant kept him away last year, to a mental health wellness station serving both English- and Spanish-speaking families, to a sixteen-year-old already lobbying state legislators on his brother's behalf — this episode is about what it means to come home to a community built on shared experience.