Mercer Island’s Effie Parks notched first place in the Cause Awareness category for her Once Upon a Gene podcast in the Positive Change PodCast Awards.

The Speak Up Talk Radio awards honored Parks for her podcast that “explores the world of raising children with disabilities and rare genetic disorders,” according to her website, which added that in the podcast, she “shares her own personal story of raising a child with CTNNB1 syndrome, while trying to find the non-existent rule book of bringing up such a special kid.”

For more information, visit https://effieparks.com/