Annie Laurie (Ala) Isham co-founded the National Center for Victims of Crime in 1985 in honor of her mother, Sunny von Bulow and continues to support the work of the National Center. In 1986, Mrs. Isham co-founded the Sunny von Bulow Coma and Head Trauma Research Foundation, a private operating foundation established to promote medical research and. public awareness as it relates to coma and head injury.. She is an experienced filmmaker, whose credits include works on photographer Alfred Eisenstadt, Wagnerian tenor Peter Hoffman, and the award winning production, "Surviving Coma" The Journey Back." Mrs. Isham is the mother of two children, Sunny and Alexandra, and married to Ralph H. Isham.