Laura Kaponer is a mental health advocate and blogger, as well as a volunteer with the local chapter of NAMI. Her advocacy efforts have earned her recognition as NAMI South Carolina’s 2019 Stigma Buster of the Year. You can find her on social media by searching #Laurakaponeris1in5.
From January 2019 through September 2021, she wrote about mental health for The Bluffton Sun in South Carolina and all of her previous posts can be found here: https://www.blufftonsun.com/user/laurakaponer/?profiletab=posts