I am honored to participate as a team member for the 2021 Students of the Year program, a seven-week initiative in which select high school students from around the country participate in a fundraising competition to benefit The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. I am proud to support this cause and am raising critical dollars in honor of our hero, Lillian Brackins, as well as in loving memory of my grandfather, Bob Johnson, who we lost to leukemia when I was just 6 months old. Each dollar you generously contribute is a vote. The candidate team that raises the most money at the end of seven weeks is named Students of the Year. Our mission is to not only raise the most money but to bring attention to blood cancers like leukemia, which is the most common form of cancer in children and teens.

Since the early 1960s, five-year survival rates for many blood cancer patients have doubled, tripled, or even quadrupled. And many LLS supported therapies not only help blood cancer patients but are helping patients with other cancers and serious diseases. In fact, drugs first approved for blood cancers are now approved to treat patients with stomach cancers, skin cancers, and autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis.

We really are changing the potential outcomes of blood cancers and other cancers as well!

All donations are greatly appreciated and are tax-deductible. You will not only support LLS-funded research but will also help provide critical information and support for patients, and support advocacy for laws to ensure patients can access the care and treatments they need.

Please visit our website often and share with friends who would also like to donate!

On behalf of blood cancer patients everywhere, thank you for your support!

For more information about LLS, please visit www.lls.org.

(My grandfather and me in 2005.)