“It has been my honor and pleasure to witness the transformation of Jacob Green from a bewildered, freshly injured young college student to a confident, articulate and eloquent brain injury survivor. Jacob is the rare patient that has overcome the debilitating and life-altering effects of traumatic brain injury. He has done this not just through sheer will, but also with hard work and calculated research and planning. When we first met, Jacob had to drop out of UC Berkeley as the residual effects of his assault had left him with, among others, impaired attention, memory, and concentration as well as visual deficits and horrendous migraines. He simply could not function and was lost. Enrolled in rehabilitation, Jacob dove in, absorbing everything—learning strategies to overcome or compensate for his deficits. He took initiative and researched novel ways to treat his visual difficulties which caused severe migraines, never giving up. He looked around, and not one to ever pity himself or wallow in the past, formulated a plan. If he couldn’t go back to Berkeley, he would attend UC Irvine, taking a class at a time until he had reached his goals. Along the way, he fought with Crohn’s disease and it’s pain, fell in love, got married, fought his wife’s cancer, started a family, and managed a city. As office life under fluorescent lighting and computers became too much for his migraines, Jacob once again developed a strategy and became an advocate for brain injury survivors, sharing his perspective and journey with professionals in the field. He was my guest lecturer at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center Rehabilitation Grand Rounds and brought therapists and nurses to tears. His talk validated their efforts, his courage filled them with purpose, his story changed the way they see their patients. Years later, some in the audience still recall his visit fondly. Jacob Green puts a human and hopeful face on the topic of traumatic brain injury.”