Sebastien Cotte became actively involved with advocation for special needs causes after his son Jagger’s rare, terminal mitochondrial disease diagnosis in 2011.

Sebastien received a bachelor’s degree in international business from the University of Indianapolis and has over 25 years of business experience at several Fortune 500 companies. His areas of expertise include human resources, training, process improvements, sales management, customer care, marketing and brand building. He serves as an ambassador for the United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation, and he is a co-chair of the Energy for Life annual walk in Atlanta. Sebastien is one of the co-founders of Georgia’s Hope, the leadership parent group that successfully helped pass several medical cannabis laws in Georgia.

Additionally, Sebastien is the national business/education director and a board member for the Flowering Hope Foundation, a 501c3 nonprofit that provides medical cannabis education and patient support. He is on the board of directors of American Medical Refugees, a group helping families that had to relocate to access medical cannabis. Recently Sebastien also started to serve on the United Mitochondrial disease foundation patient advisory board.

Sebastien has been a featured speaker at numerous mitochondrial, special needs and medical cannabis conferences all over the world and has educated well over 1500 parents/patients on the benefits and properties of medical cannabis.

Sebastien is honored to be a part of the Life House Atlanta board as he strongly recognizes the incredible need for such a facility in Atlanta. He really wishes that it was available when he and his wife Annett were 24/7 hours caregivers for their son Jagger for 13 years without any help. Caregivers’ mental and physical exhaustion is a very critical public health crisis that is not getting the attention that it deserves.