Let’s Begin a Conversation

It means remembering that vaccine injury conversations involve real people and real families in our community. Their experiences deserve to be treated with care, rather than used as material for an argument or someone else’s entertainment.

Begin by listening to our vaccine-injured neighbors. Acknowledge what they have lived through, treat them with respect, and offer compassion and human connection. Let them choose what they feel comfortable sharing.

We want to build a community that supports people as they navigate their experiences—and encourages everyone to approach these conversations with greater kindness, calmness, and care.

We mean every vaccine-injured Nevadan matters—regardless of the vaccine involved, the type of injury they believe they experienced, their age, or how long ago it happened. Your experience need not have happened in Nevada for you to be welcome here.

You do not need a confirmed diagnosis or documentation to join our pre-launch conversations. Whether your experience was last year or decades ago, we welcome you and whatever you feel comfortable sharing.

Some people have carried difficult experiences in isolation for years, with nobody they felt able to talk to. We want to help change that through conversation, connection, and a community that listens.

We have more questions than answers. We want to understand our neighbors’ experiences and needs, then develop useful support as our capacity grows. During pre-launch, that begins with people to talk to.

“Help all” is our commitment to inclusion and service. Our long-term aim is that no vaccine-injured Nevadan has to walk their journey alone.

No. We respect people’s ability to make decisions about their own bodies. We want people to receive clear information about vaccine benefits, risks, and relevant options, with room to ask questions and calmly consider their personal circumstances with appropriate medical guidance.

Our intention is to help Nevadans make calmer, more informed vaccine-related decisions. Whatever someone decides, anyone who experiences a vaccine injury deserves compassion, connection, and support.

It means approaching vaccine-related decisions with knowledge, calmness, and thoughtful consideration of your individual circumstances—without pressure, shame, or guilt.

It means having room to ask questions, understand the expected benefits and potential risks, consider relevant options, and discuss what is appropriate for you with a qualified healthcare professional.

People’s circumstances differ. Discernment encourages you to understand a recommendation and take an informed, active part in your care.

Nevada Vax Watch does not provide medical advice or tell you which vaccines to receive. Our intention is to support learning and respectful conversations so that Nevadans can approach these decisions with greater understanding and confidence.

Our distinctive starting point is “Love Thy Vaccine-Injured Neighbor.”

We begin locally: finding our Nevada neighbors, listening to their experiences, connecting them with people who care, and learning what would help them. Kindness, calmness, and compassion guide how we approach this complicated topic.

Through Zara’s Garden and the future Zara Project, we intend to bring community connection, responsibly preserved lived experience, and thoughtful learning together. We want that work to support survivors and contribute to more meaningful informed consent and vaccine medicine discernment here at home.

Our contribution will be shaped by the people we meet and the needs we discover. We hope to build a dependable Nevada community that keeps asking: How can we better love and serve our vaccine-injured neighbors?

Other organizations bring their own expertise and contributions. We want to add something useful through sustained local relationships, careful learning, and compassionate service.

Because this is our home. It is where we can meet our neighbors, build relationships, listen to their experiences, and show up for one another consistently.

The vision for The Zara Project grew over more than a decade. Starting in Clark County is a deliberate choice: we want to learn what becomes possible when a community gives its vaccine-injured neighbors sustained attention, compassion, and support.

There is considerable noise around this topic. We can remain informed about the wider world while focusing our energy on work we can do together locally.

Through the future Zara Project, we hope to preserve voluntarily shared experiences, understand local needs, and contribute useful knowledge to informed conversations alongside medical evidence. We also want to discover how a connected community can better support survivors, families, and those grieving a loss.

Clark County is our starting point. Our commitment is to all of Nevada. As we establish the infrastructure, test our approach, and build the capacity to serve responsibly, we intend to extend support to Nevadans in their own communities throughout the state—as soon as we are ready to do that work well.

If we build something useful and sustainable here, other communities beyond Nevada may also be able to learn from it and adapt it to their own neighbors.

Our work begins in Clark County, grows toward serving all Nevadans, and may eventually give us something meaningful to share with the world.

During pre-launch, we begin with something simple and human: people to talk to. We welcome vaccine injury survivors, people concerned they may have experienced a vaccine injury, family members, caregivers, and those grieving a loss they believe may be vaccine-related.

You do not need a medical diagnosis or documentation to join these conversations. Your concern is enough. You can talk, listen, make connections, and choose how much or how little you feel comfortable sharing.

Nevada Vax Watch does not provide medical advice. As our resources grow, we hope to offer more help connecting people with appropriate professional advice and other resources. For now, our focus is conversation, local community, and human connection.

“Love Thy Vaccine-Injured Neighbor” is a universal invitation.

Everyone is welcome: vaccine injury survivors, families, caregivers, healthcare professionals, public officials, and anyone who wants to listen, learn, or help. You are welcome regardless of your views on vaccination, political beliefs, faith, or whether you have any faith at all.

We do not need to agree on everything to care for one another. We ask everyone to approach others with kindness, compassion, respect, and a willingness to listen.

You do not have to arrive feeling calm or have your experience neatly explained. Difficult feelings are welcome; personal attacks, harassment, and pressure are not.

Our shared purpose is to support our vaccine-injured neighbors and cultivate more thoughtful, compassionate conversations about a complicated subject.

Absolutely. Family members and caregivers are part of our community, and your own experiences and needs matter too.

We are beginning with Together Tuesdays: a place to meet people, listen, talk if you wish, and make connections. You do not have to attend only in support of someone else. You are welcome to seek connection for yourself.

As Zara’s Garden develops, we hope to create more opportunities for people to find one another and build supportive relationships. People come first.

We do not have all the answers or know exactly how every part of the community will develop. We will listen as needs emerge. Where we can offer something useful, we will do our best to respond with the people and resources available.

Yes. Wherever you live in Nevada, you matter to this work.

The Zara Project is being developed by Nevadans, for Nevadans, in Nevada. Our first local activities begin in Clark County, but our intention is to build connection and support throughout the state.

We are just getting started, with limited resources and considerable ambition. During pre-launch, please join our list and follow our progress. We will do our best to stay in touch as we build.

Our vision for Zara’s Garden is that Nevadans can connect across the state and find one another within their own communities. People in Reno could connect with other Reno neighbors, while those in rural communities could participate from wherever they call home.

As the Garden develops, we hope you will be able to contribute your gifts, help The Zara Project grow, and see the work take shape. These connections and resources are part of what we are building toward.

My commitment is to extend meaningful connection and useful resources to your community as soon as we have the capacity to do so responsibly. It will take a team effort, and your participation—whatever form it takes—matters from the beginning.

I love Nevada and our neighbors. I want this work to serve them with compassion and strengthen informed consent and vaccine medicine discernment for generations to come.

I understand. This topic has felt overwhelming to me too. You do not need to take it all on at once.

During pre-launch, start by following Nevada Vax Watch on social media or joining our free pre-launch list. If you feel comfortable, come to Together Tuesdays. You can simply listen and meet a few neighbors.

We want to make this work approachable, uplifting, and engaging—with room for warmth, creativity, and moments of joy, while treating people’s experiences with care.

As the pilot develops, we intend to offer more community resources, events, and opportunities to learn. Our aim is to communicate with kindness, calmness, compassion, and clarity.

Do as much or as little as feels right for you. You can follow quietly, step back, or become more involved when you feel ready. There is no pressure to share your story or take on a role.

For now, knowing we are here and watching this community grow is enough.

Absolutely. You do not have to stop feeling angry before you belong.

I was angry for years. I know how heavy that can feel, especially when you are carrying it alone. My hope is that you will find people here who listen with compassion and treat you with respect.

Connection and meaningful activity helped me find a different way forward. Your journey will be your own. We cannot promise to take your anger away, but we can offer conversation, human connection, and opportunities to contribute when you feel ready.

You may eventually want to share your experience or help grow something useful for others. You may simply want someone to talk to. Neither requires you to hide your feelings or turn your pain into a project.

Anger is welcome. We ask everyone to express themselves without threatening, attacking, or mistreating others.

Come as you are. We hope you will find encouragement, connection, and possibilities for hope at your own pace.

No. You are welcome to speak about what you have experienced and ask difficult questions. Calmness does not mean minimizing harm, avoiding disagreement, or asking people to hide their feelings.

For many years, I was not calm about this topic. In my experience, finding a calmer place helped me think more clearly about what to do next.

That is what we hope to cultivate together: a respectful environment where people can express themselves, feel heard, and consider a constructive next step.

You do not have to arrive feeling calm. Bring your questions and whatever you feel comfortable sharing. We ask everyone to treat one another with care as we work toward understanding.

Absolutely. “Love Thy Vaccine-Injured Neighbor” does not require agreement on every story, medical conclusion, or personal opinion.

Nevada Vax Watch is built on compassion, conversations, and community. You can take someone’s suffering seriously, listen respectfully, and support them while still asking thoughtful questions about what the evidence establishes.

Our purpose is to support our vaccine-injured neighbors, strengthen meaningful informed consent, and encourage vaccine medicine discernment—now and for generations to come. We are here to help people learn and connect, without telling them what to think or requiring agreement.

Our understanding and methods may develop over time. Our commitment to treating our neighbors with love, dignity, and compassion will remain.

You are letting us know you’re here and would like to stay connected. We will contact you when we announce our first Together Tuesdays gathering, update you as the work develops, and make sure you are among the first invited to future events and celebrations of what we accomplish together.

I have spent years developing this vision around the community, understanding, and human connection I wished I had found on my own vaccine injury survivor journey. It is being built for people like you, and joining the list helps us begin finding one another.

On a personal level, knowing you’re there encourages me to keep moving forward—to build something that supports our vaccine-injured neighbors, strengthens meaningful informed consent, and helps Nevadans approach vaccine medicine with greater calmness and discernment.

You do not have to volunteer, donate, attend an event, or share your story. For now, simply letting us know you’re interested is enough.

Please join us. This will take a community to build. Everything starts somewhere, and we are starting with the pre-launch list and Together Tuesdays.

First, a warm welcome. Together Tuesdays is informal: come as you are.

You can listen, learn, meet your neighbors, and share your thoughts, observations, or questions. If you have ideas about helping this community grow, we would love to hear them. You are equally welcome to simply listen.

You can arrive late or leave early. You do not need to prepare anything or share personal experiences. We ask everyone to treat one another with respect and kindness.

This can be a heavy and complicated topic. Our hope is that, through human connection, we can also find encouragement, moments of joy, and reasons to feel hopeful.

We do not have all the answers. These conversations will help us understand what our community needs and, over time, develop resources and programs that support vaccine-injured neighbors, strengthen meaningful informed consent, and encourage vaccine medicine discernment throughout Nevada.

If you feel nervous about coming, that is okay. You do not have to arrive knowing what to say. Your presence is enough.

Together Tuesdays is for meeting neighbors, having conversations, and building relationships. We will not record community conversations or collect stories there for publication. Future story-preservation work belongs to The Zara Project, with its own careful consent and review process.

There will be a designated, optional area where you can learn to “flip the Z” for The Zara Project, take a photograph, and show your support on social media if you wish. Everyone identifiable in a photograph must agree to being photographed and, separately, to having it shared.

Joining that activity is entirely your choice. Attending Together Tuesdays does not mean agreeing to appear in promotional content.

Only first names are required. You choose what you share, and we ask everyone to keep other people’s personal experiences private unless they have permission to repeat them. We cannot guarantee every participant’s conduct, but we will make these expectations clear.

Come as you are. Our purpose is to build real relationships and a community that shows up for one another.

“Flip the Z” is an invitation to bring hope, connection, and positive action to a heavy and complicated topic.

I call the day Zara died in 2014 “Z-Day.” It changed my life and began my journey through vaccine injury, informed consent, and vaccine medicine discernment.

For me, flipping the Z symbolizes turning toward something hopeful: honoring Zara through love, community, and service. It does not erase the tragedy or ask anyone to hide their pain.

When we flip the Z together—and smile if we feel like smiling—we express a shared hope: we can support one another and do something meaningful for our vaccine-injured neighbors.

Our work begins with serving people in Nevada. Over time, we hope what we build together may help communities elsewhere too.

You do not have to feel cheerful to belong. The gesture is simply an invitation to remember that, even amid difficulty, there can be connection, compassion, and something worth growing together.

Share Nevada Vax Watch’s information or social media with them, and let them decide whether to connect. Don’t give us their information. Give them ours.

Participation is voluntary. There is no need to persuade someone, ask them to explain their experience, or keep encouraging them after they have declined.

We believe in attraction rather than pressure. Our hope is that the kindness, thoughtfulness, and compassion people encounter in our work will help them feel comfortable coming as they are, whenever they feel ready.

We intend to earn that confidence through consistent care and a community people can get to know over time.

During pre-launch, our focus is Together Tuesdays, conversation, and human connection. We want to meet our vaccine-injured neighbors, listen to what they need, and explore how we can care for one another as a community.

Nevada Vax Watch does not provide medical advice or treatment. We are not currently offering a professional referral service.

Our pre-launch gatherings will be free of health-product sales and promotions. Their purpose is to help us learn how to put “Love Thy Vaccine-Injured Neighbor” into practice through listening, kindness, and relationships.

In the future, appropriately qualified professionals and friends of The Zara Project may help us develop useful resources or connections to services. Any such arrangements would need careful consideration and preparation before being offered.

For now, we begin with people: listening, connecting, and discovering how we can serve our neighbors with the resources available.

During pre-launch, we begin by welcoming you into our community. Our immediate focus is conversation, connection, and putting “Love Thy Vaccine-Injured Neighbor” into practice.

I have personal experience navigating the federal vaccine-injury compensation process, but Nevada Vax Watch does not provide legal advice, assess eligibility, prepare claims, or manage compensation cases.

Where we are able, we may point you toward existing resources and organizations that offer relevant information or assistance. This is general signposting, rather than a formal referral or case-management service.

As we learn what our neighbors need and develop our capacity, we may explore additional resources. For now, we will be clear about what we can offer and help within those limits.

You do not need to pursue a report or compensation claim to be welcome here.

The Community Architecture Blueprint sets out a vision for how we can put “Love Thy Vaccine-Injured Neighbor” into practice through community, learning, and compassionate service.

It is a detailed guide for our work. It describes possibilities we hope to cultivate over time, rather than a promise that every program already exists or that every idea will be implemented.

The vision grew from more than a decade of personal experience, reflection, and preparation. What happens next will also be shaped by our neighbors: what they need, what we learn together, and the people and resources available.

Our purpose remains to support vaccine-injured neighbors, strengthen meaningful informed consent, and encourage vaccine medicine discernment in Nevada. As we learn, we will refine how we pursue that purpose.

You do not need to understand the entire Blueprint to participate. I’m just a vaccine injury survivor who spent years trying to find a meaningful way forward. This is the vision that grew from that journey. What it becomes will depend on the people who join us—their experiences, ideas, kindness, and willingness to help. Together, we hope to grow something useful for Nevada, and perhaps something worth sharing with the world.

The Blueprint is an invitation to help shape that future.

Zara’s Garden is our vision for a community where people can have compassionate, calmer conversations about vaccine injury, informed consent, and vaccine medicine discernment. It is a place to connect, exchange ideas and experiences, and cultivate community wisdom together.

The idea grew from my own journey. When I first began seeking understanding, I felt upset, overwhelmed, and drawn toward protest. Zara inspired me to imagine a place where we could put love first and bring our gifts to something we could nurture together.

Within Zara’s Garden, we intend to cultivate The Zara Project: the careful, voluntary preservation of lived experience to support learning and service.

Gardens take time. They need attention, nourishment, patience, and the willingness to tend what needs care. Building this community will take those things too.

Our hope is to grow something that helps Nevada’s vaccine-injured neighbors, strengthens informed conversations, and may eventually offer something valuable to the wider world.

Zara inspired me to begin. I hope she inspires you to Love Thy Vaccine-Injured Neighbor—and see what we can grow together.

A Zara Berry is the name we intend to give to a story accepted through The Zara Project’s future preparation and review process, with the storyteller’s permission.

At its heart are human testimony and the person’s experience of what happened. The purpose is to preserve experiences that might otherwise be lost, honor what our neighbors have lived through, and learn from them.

I believe that a conscientious, consistent, and systematic effort to listen across Clark County may help us recognize recurring experiences, unmet needs, and questions that remain difficult to see when stories are considered individually. Bringing Zara Berries together may help us notice connections worth exploring further.

We want to better understand the scope of experiences reported in our community. Any attempt to establish how frequently vaccine injuries occur would require an appropriate research approach beyond collecting voluntary stories. Apparent patterns would be starting points for careful inquiry, rather than proof of medical causation.

Our hope is to turn responsibly reviewed learning into useful educational materials, considered alongside medical evidence, and share them with people who may benefit. What we learn locally may eventually contribute something meaningful to communities elsewhere.

The criteria for Zara Berries are still being developed. Preservation, educational use, and public sharing will depend on appropriate permission and review.

The person always matters more than the story, and sharing remains entirely voluntary.

You are under no obligation to share your story. You can belong, connect, and receive a compassionate welcome without telling anyone what happened to you.

In my own experience, sharing Zara’s story helped me feel less alone in carrying it. Building this work has helped me find meaning in something personally tragic. Your experience may be different, and you decide whether sharing feels right for you.

Our hope is that, through the future Zara Project, voluntarily shared stories may help people find others who have experienced something similar, feel less alone, and contribute to learning. Considered carefully alongside medical evidence, these experiences may also help people ask better questions during informed consent conversations.

Your suffering does not have to become a public story or serve a larger purpose to deserve care.

The Zara Project will be built on consent, permission, and trust. As we develop it, we intend to explain clearly how a story could be preserved or used and seek permission for those uses. Sharing privately will not mean agreeing to publication.

We hope to earn your trust over time. Whether you ever choose to share your story remains entirely up to you.

The Zara Project, planned for 2027, will begin with the human testimony of our Nevada neighbors: local experiences received with compassion and care.

When submissions open, you will not need a medical diagnosis to share your experience. Our first responsibility will be to listen and understand what you choose to tell us.

Submitting a story will not automatically make it a featured Zara Project story or a Zara Berry. Those educational accounts will go through a separate preparation and review process, with the storyteller’s permission.

The criteria are still being developed. We intend to review both the stories and our process thoughtfully, checking that accounts faithfully represent what people shared, distinguishing personal testimony from medical conclusions, and improving our approach as we learn.

Being selected for a featured story will not determine whether someone deserves acknowledgment, connection, or compassion. Every person matters, whether or not their story is published.

Our hope is that, through cultivating Zara’s Garden and The Zara Project within it, we can help Nevadans and healthcare professionals have more grounded conversations about vaccine-related decisions.

We envision local stories, voluntarily shared testimony, and carefully collected information that reflect what people and families in Clark County have experienced. With permission and responsible review, those experiences could bring local understanding to conversations often shaped by distant national debates.

Personal stories can illuminate experiences, needs, and questions. Considered alongside reliable evidence about vaccine benefits and risks, individual medical circumstances, and professional guidance, they could help people ask better questions and make more informed decisions.

This is a long-term intention. We are beginning with conversations and human connection, and building toward the responsible preservation and use of what we learn together.

Resources that help people understand meaningful informed consent will be an early priority. Beyond that, listening will guide us.

Nevada Vax Watch is being built as a responsive learning organization. Through Together Tuesdays and other community conversations, we will ask our Nevada neighbors what they need, which questions keep arising, and where they encounter difficulties.

I have spent years thinking about this work, but I am one vaccine injury survivor. The community will help shape what we develop.

From that listening, we intend to prepare thoughtful educational materials grounded in reliable evidence, clearly identified sources, compassion, and kindness. We will distinguish personal experience from medical conclusions and be honest about uncertainty.

Inspired by Zara, our resources will reflect local voices and Nevada’s needs while drawing on relevant knowledge from beyond our state. As we learn, we will review and improve them.

Our aim is to create information that people can understand and use in calmer, more informed conversations.

Start by letting us know you’re here. Join our pre-launch list, read the Community Architecture Blueprint, and come to an event so we can meet one another.

The Blueprint describes an ambitious vision. Pre-launch is our beginning, and there are several ways you can help:

• Bring your gifts. Let us know about your skills, expertise, interests, or the time and energy you would like to contribute.
• Help fund the pilot. If you believe in this work and are able to make a financial contribution, your support can help us build the foundation.
• Help us find our neighbors. Share our invitation with someone who may need connection. Don’t give us their information. Give them ours.
• Join the conversation. Come talk with us about Nevada Vax Watch, The Zara Project, and our hopes for a community that supports people on their healing journeys.

We want to get to know our Clark County neighbors, understand their experiences and needs, and discover how we can serve one another with love.

You do not need to donate to be welcome. Let’s meet, connect, and see what we can grow together.

Joining our free pre-launch list simply lets us know you’re here and would like to stay connected. It is an invitation to follow our progress, learn about opportunities to meet, and help build a community that supports vaccine-injured neighbors and more informed, calmer vaccine-related decisions.

As our capacity grows, Nevada Vax Watch intends to provide public educational and community resources for all Nevadans.

Zara’s Garden is for people who want to take a more active part in growing that community. It is our planned community for supporting members who want to connect, contribute their gifts, and help put “Love Thy Vaccine-Injured Neighbor” into practice. Together, members will help cultivate the vision described in the Community Architecture Blueprint.

Supporting membership will help sustain the people, resources, and work behind our mission. Participation can reflect each person’s interests, abilities, and circumstances.

Our intention is to build a community supported by its members, without selling their personal information or funding it through advertising. We value meaningful relationships and the care we show one another.

Please come talk with us. Nevada Vax Watch is a service organization first. You do not need to pay to join the pre-launch list or participate in our free community conversations.

If supporting membership is beyond your means, let us know. We will listen and explore what assistance or participation options we can offer with the resources available. The arrangements for financial hardship are still being developed.

Your financial circumstances do not determine your worth or whether you deserve compassion and connection.

Your donation will help build the foundation Nevada Vax Watch needs to serve our community: establishing essential systems, preparing Zara’s Garden, supporting consistent gatherings, and developing the organizational capacity to carry out our mission responsibly.

Most importantly, it will help us listen. We want to understand what our vaccine-injured neighbors and the wider Nevada community need, then develop useful programs and resources as our capacity grows.

Our purpose is to put “Love Thy Vaccine-Injured Neighbor” into practice, strengthen meaningful informed consent, and help Nevadans approach vaccine-related decisions with greater knowledge, kindness, calmness, and discernment.

Founding support is especially meaningful. I have devoted years of thought, effort, personal resources, and lived experience to developing this vision. Your contribution can help turn that preparation into dependable community work.

We do not have all the answers. We are committed to using contributions carefully, learning from the people we serve, and building something useful and sustainable. With your help, we hope this beginning will serve Nevadans today and generations to come.

Whether you have experienced vaccine injury or simply want a more compassionate, informed community, this work is for you.

Healthcare professionals are especially welcome. Your expertise, perspectives, and experiences can help our community learn and develop useful resources.

We also hope you will come to listen—to meet our vaccine-injured neighbors and better understand the experiences, questions, and needs people bring. These conversations offer an opportunity for learning in both directions.

Nevada Vax Watch does not provide medical advice. Professionals can contribute general educational perspectives within their expertise while respecting the boundaries of a community gathering.

As Zara’s Garden develops, we intend to explore participation options that respect people’s privacy, including those who feel concerned about discussing this topic openly. Those arrangements are still being developed; we cannot yet promise anonymous or confidential participation.

Healthcare professionals are one valued part of a community open to all Nevadans. Our shared starting point is “Love Thy Vaccine-Injured Neighbor”: listen with compassion, ask thoughtful questions, and treat one another with dignity.

Trust is earned. We hope to earn yours through consistent actions, kindness, careful work, and ethical decisions—even when doing the right thing is difficult.

This work began with my commitment to honor Zara’s life. “Love Thy Vaccine-Injured Neighbor” is the principle we expect everyone on our team to put into practice.

You can hold us accountable to these commitments:

• Show up consistently: follow through and communicate when plans change.
• Welcome people with kindness: without requiring donations, public storytelling, or agreement.
• Respect consent: explain how personal stories may be used and obtain permission.
• Communicate honestly: distinguish lived experience, evidence, uncertainty, and future plans.
• Listen and correct mistakes: receive concerns respectfully and take responsibility when we fall short.
• Make promises we can keep: develop services as our people, resources, and preparation allow.

We are a community in development. We invite you to get to know us, observe our work, and help us become worthy of the trust we seek.

Please tell us. We welcome thoughtful questions, corrections, and constructive criticism. Your participation can help us serve our community better.

We will not always get everything right. Our responsibility is to listen, examine the concern fairly, and respond respectfully. When we make a mistake, we will acknowledge it, correct the affected material or practice, and explain significant changes.

People can support our mission while disagreeing with a statement, interpretation, or decision. Raising a concern does not make someone unwelcome.

We are committed to continually improving the quality of our work. Our ambition is to build a trustworthy organization that serves Nevadans well today and remains useful for generations to come.

The pilot is our beginning. Success would mean we are connected, consistent in our community gatherings, and dependable in how we welcome our vaccine-injured neighbors.

Our plan gives us direction, but listening will shape the work. We will ask people what they need and use what we learn to develop useful resources as our capacity grows.

I will feel we are succeeding when Zara’s Garden is being cultivated, our weekly community rhythm is dependable, and we have the stability to prepare The Zara Project responsibly.

That means having the people, volunteers, infrastructure, and resources to begin—and a community that feels ready. We want to launch The Zara Project when we can care properly for the people and experiences entrusted to us.

Success begins with neighbors showing up for one another, learning together, and building something we can sustain with love.

Our launch plan includes measures to help us assess our progress and improve our work. But in the beginning, what matters most to me is whether people feel connected, included, and welcomed.

Are people finding a place where they feel comfortable listening, learning, and sharing what they choose? Are they forming relationships and feeling less alone? We will listen to their feedback and let it guide us.

On a personal level, if we can help someone find a moment of joy, a reason to smile, or an opportunity for positive connection around this difficult topic, that is a meaningful place to start.

No one needs to feel cheerful or stop being angry to show that the community is helping. What matters is that people feel treated with care and find something useful in being here.

Over time, we will consider both our practical measures and what participants tell us, so we can understand what is working and what needs to change.

Because of Zara.

Z-Day broke me. What followed was years of grief, anger, difficult questions, and isolation. For much of that journey, I felt alone. One of my deepest reasons for building Nevada Vax Watch is that I do not want others to experience that same loneliness.

For years, I was hard on myself for not doing something sooner. But I needed time to recover and find enough peace to approach this work with care. The ideas also needed time to grow. I wanted to find a way to help others that I could sustain without losing myself in the pain again.

Eventually, I found a starting point: Love Thy Vaccine-Injured Neighbor. Begin with our neighbors. Listen, connect, and discover what we can do together from there.

I believe I have a responsibility to try. Whatever wisdom, peace, and optimism I have gathered over the years, I want to put into service. I plan to keep what I have learned by giving it away. Doing so warms and strengthens my vaccine-injured heart. I have a hunch it’s going to help warm and strengthen yours as well.

This work fills my heart. I am grateful for Zara’s short, perfect life and how deeply she shaped the man I am today. My hope is that, through Zara’s Garden and The Zara Project, we can grow something that brings connection, understanding, and compassion to others.

I cannot build that alone. With your help, God willing, something meaningful and lasting can grow from this beginning.

No. Nevada Vax Watch is not a religious organization. People of every faith, and people with no faith, are welcome.

After losing Zara, there were times when I was deeply angry at God and religion. Over the years, I had personal experiences that changed my understanding. I reached a point where, for me, I could no longer deny the place of God, Zara, and this mission in my life. That understanding helped me find a way forward.

You do not need to share my beliefs to belong. God willing, as we work together and discover what this community can become, I hope you will find something helpful and meaningful in the journey too.

“Love Thy Vaccine-Injured Neighbor” is an invitation open to everyone.

Nevada Vax Watch is nonpartisan. Our work centers on supporting vaccine injury survivors, strengthening meaningful informed consent, and encouraging vaccine medicine discernment.

People may approach this topic through politics, but “Love Thy Vaccine-Injured Neighbor” is a universal principle. Compassion and community do not require a shared political position.

People of every political viewpoint are welcome. We ask everyone to begin with care for our neighbors and a willingness to listen respectfully.

My hope is that together we build a community and an organization that keeps learning how to serve our vaccine-injured Nevada neighbors better.

I want future generations to inherit lasting relationships, carefully preserved knowledge, and useful resources that help them approach vaccine-related decisions with greater understanding, calmness, and confidence.

Our ambition is to help make meaningful informed consent and vaccine medicine discernment accessible to all Nevadans, while ensuring that compassion for people affected by vaccine injury remains central to our work.

That legacy will require continued listening, responsible stewardship, and a willingness to improve as knowledge and community needs change.

Above all, I hope we leave a community where families feel supported in asking questions, making informed decisions, and finding human connection when they need it.

There’s always a way.

It took me years to find a way forward after losing Zara. Building this vision has been difficult, and I have not always known what the next step would be. But I held on to faith that there was something meaningful I could do.

I cannot promise an answer to every question or a solution to every hardship. What I believe is that we can keep finding ways to listen, connect, and care for one another.

My hope is that together we will find our way to Love Thy Vaccine-Injured Neighbor.

If that speaks to you, join our pre-launch list. Let us know you’re there, and let’s discover what we can do together.