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Episode 371: Turning a Diagnosis Into a Movement | Marta Eliza Miller & Corinna Clover Miller | Founders of the Marta Eliza Miller Foundation  **Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube. **Featured on home and podcast pages.

In this episode of Edutainment Learning, we speak with Marta Eliza Miller, a 19-year-old former U.S. figure skating ice dancer and founder of the Marta Eliza Miller Foundation (MEMF).

Marta shares her powerful journey navigating scoliosis, elite athletics, and the mental health challenges that often go unseen behind physical conditions. Through her advocacy work, she is helping bring awareness to the emotional impact of scoliosis while empowering young people to speak openly about resilience, identity, and recovery.

This conversation explores how adversity can become purpose, and how young leaders are reshaping conversations around health, mental wellness, and awareness in powerful ways.

🎧 Topics include:

Living with scoliosis and its hidden challenges
Mental health in young athletes
Building the Marta Eliza Miller Foundation (MEMF)
Turning personal struggle into public advocacy
Lessons on resilience, identity, and purpose

🌍 Edutainment Learning connects students around the world with inspiring voices in science, education, business, health, and culture through short-form career conversations designed for classrooms.

Marta Eliza Miller Foundation Launches $250,000 Nationwide Grant Initiative During National Scoliosis Awareness Month, Supporting Organizations in All 50 States and Puerto Rico Foundation Marks Six Years of Impact and More Than $1 Million Raised for Scoliosis Awareness Through Largest Grant Initiative to Date MEMF Support for Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Surpasses $475,000; Marta ElizaContinue reading “Marta Eliza Miller Foundation Launches $250,000 Nationwide Grant Initiative”

By Authority Magazine Editorial Staff “The practice of figure skating every day has definitely helped me in all of my endeavors, both running the foundation with my mom, and also being a student and graduating from college early. I found in college that I was one of few very focused students, and I attribute thatContinue reading “Marta Eliza Miller of Marta Eliza Miller Foundation: How My Experience in Athletics Trained Me to Become a Better Leader”

Marta Eliza Miller’s happy place has always been on the ice, but a diagnosis at age 11 threatened everything she had been working toward for years.

“My mom noticed that I leaned to my left side and looked down while I was skating,” the California-based teen tells PEOPLE. “Whenever we tried a posture brace, it would always shift to the wrong side.”

Over $475,000 contributed to the Spine Center in the Jackie and Gene Autry Orthopedic Center at CHLA. Mark your calendars for a Major California Fundraiser Set for National Scoliosis Month in June February 16, 2026 –The Marta Eliza Miller Foundation (MEMF) was born from a moment of uncertainty. In 2020, at just 13 years old, Marta Eliza Miller founded the 501(c)(3) nonprofitContinue reading “Marta Eliza Miller Foundation Surpasses $1 Million for Scoliosis Research and Awareness”

Could a smartphone change how patients with idiopathic scoliosis receive care? According to experts in the Jackie and Gene Autry Orthopedic Center, yes-and there’s an app for that.

In 2013, David Crosby, Graham Nash, and Jackson Browne performed a benefit concert,
joining together with the community of Maui, Hawaii, to raise funds for “Ruth’s Ride” – a wheelchair accessible van for Ruth Benavides.

Join the Marta Eliza Miller Foundation in supporting CHLA’s 2025 Make March Matter Campaign. Marta discusses their journey with CHLA as a patient and supporter of their crucial services to help children with spinal issues including Scolosis.