Lisa Guardado

Lisa Guardado established The Eddie Guardado Foundation, a non-profit 501 (c)(3) in 2008 after their youngest child, Ava, was diagnosed with autism. Lisa’s husband Eddie is a former MLB Pitcher and theyvboth understand the emotional and financial hardships families impacted with autism experience and founded the Eddie Guardado Foundation to help other families receive access to therapy and treatments that they could not otherwise afford.

In January 2011, The Eddie Guardado Foundation merged with Autism Care Today as both non-profits share the mission of providing awareness of and access to effective therapies for children with autism.