MRISAR: Autumn Siegel

Staff & Family Member

Autumn M. Siegel: Assistant Vice President, Secretary,

Research & Development, Staff Artist & Writer, Shop & Maintenance Worker

Autumn and Aurora; 2009 Autumn and Aurora; 2003

Autumn Marie Siegel, (born 1991), is the daughter of Victoria Lee Croasdell and John Adrian Siegel and the grand-daughter of Detroit artist John Alfred Siegel. She is actively involved in her parent's business MRISAR, Institute of Science, Art & Robotics, where she helps to design and build science, art and robotic exhibits for world class science centers, museums, universities, NASA funded exhibitions and the film and movie industries for inclusion in media productions. Additionally MRISAR designs and creates low cost humanitarian & environmental devices, such as Adaptive Technology prototypes for the disabled. Her family's business uses all profits after regular expenses and taxes to fund charitable projects, and environmental and humanitarian based research and development. They have won awards and International accreditation. Their research has been published by Universities & Scientific Journals and has been featured numerous times in newspaper articles and television segments.

In 2011 she co-founded with her parents, "FAWWH Institute; Fellowship of Applied Wisdom for World Harmony". It is a nonprofit organization in North Dakota that establishes Humanitarian & Environmentally based public projects and educational programs for the benefit of humanity, the earth and future generations of all planetary life. The website for FAWWH is under creation!

In 1995 at the age of four, she begin her corporate charitable services when she became a honorary board member of MOSAA, a 501-C 3 nonprofit organization that her parents founded in Michigan. In October of 2004 MOSAA merged with a charitable project called "The Friends of Pichon", which was formed by David Smith and Pierre Balthazar, in 1999 to assist the village of Pichon, Haiti, to overcome severe poverty conditions. It primarily assists the education of the underprivileged in the US and in Haiti. We changed MOSAA's name to "Education For Prosperity". In June of 2010, she gave up her board member responsibilities when she moved to New Leipzig, North Dakota. She is still involved in the organization by way of being apart of a North Dakota Committee.

Her artistic goal is to create written and visual works that promote humanitarian and environmental awareness.

Artistry of Autumn Marie Siegel

Personal Statement

When I was 5 1/2 years old, I had a stroke that completely paralyzed the left side of my body. The doctors told my parents that I would always be crippled. My Dad insisted to my mother and me that I was going to not only recover, but going to walk out of the hospital, not ride out in a wheelchair. He seemed so sure that I believed him, and a couple days later I started to move the muscles in my left side. 13 days after the stroke which destroyed the part of my brain that controlled all the voluntary movement in the left side of my body, I ran out of the hospital. My doctor, Dr. Gertan, one of the top children's neurologists in the East Coast, was amazed. No one could explain my recovery. He asked if they could film me for the "Children's Miracle Network" fundraiser. My dad said yes, so we told my story on the television. While in the hospital I saw children who were dying, or crippled and unable to make themselves better. I will never forget "Little Johnny". He was a tiny African American , 3 year old boy, who shared the I.C. Unit with me. He had tubes in his throat so he could not talk, but his eyes were so gentle and expressive. We became friends. After I started getting better I was moved into a regular room. I shared it with a 15 year old girl named Delilah. I did not understand why she looked so thin that you could see the shapes of her bones through her skin. She was very nice to me, and my mom gave her art lessons. I remember how when I was in the hospital my parents took turns staying with me. They never left me alone. But I did not see any other parents doing that. After I totally healed and started to forget that I was ever paralyzed, my parents told me, what they had kept from me in the hospital. That a part of my brain had died, that I was never suppose to be normal again, that I was not suppose to be able to get up and run out of the hospital and that Little Johnny and Delilah had died from their diseases. They understood that they had to convince me that I was going to be ok, so that I could rise above my situation, or I might not have been able to do it. If I would have known at the time that my two room mates were dying, it would have been harder to believe that I was going to get better.

I want to help other people. I want to see them smile and be comforted, if even just for awhile.

I am home-schooled and by choice a vegetarian. My interests include; Ayurveda, herbology, art, digital graphics, writing, martial arts, gardening, natural environments, reading science fiction, different cultures, Japanese anime, manga, film making and environmental-humanitarian issues. Examples of my creativity can be viewed in the Art Division on this site.

My home life is very peaceful, as we all get along and no one smokes or drinks alcohol. We like to drink green, spice and herbal teas. We spend our time together, whether working, walking, exercising, or socializing.

Email: ams(at)mrisar.com Please replace (at) with @ when using this email address!

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