Most of Team CUREage in attendance for our first meeting! Lots of great ideas!

Jada and I after having a successful day up in Phoenix learning different ways to achieve great things!

I am honored to participate as a team member for the 2020 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 honored to be joining Jada Love, my best friend, as we raise money for fighting childhood cancer. Jada Love and I have been friends since we were in kindergarden and in seventh grade Jada was diagnosed with Leukeima. This was very hard for Jada and everyone that loved and cared for her, including me. After Jada started coming back to school we became very close friends. Since then we have celebrated many milestones together, like her last chemo treatment, her hair growing long enough to put it in a ponytail, and now, being able to participate in the Students of the Year campaign. Cancer has not only touched my heart with my friends but also some of my family. I am proud to support my candidate and am raising critical dollars in honor of a young patient hero who is currently battling or is in remission from a blood cancer. Each dollar is a vote. The candidate team that raises the most money at the end of the seven weeks is named Student of the Year. Our mission is to not only raise the most money but also 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 face of blood cancer!

All donations are greatly appreciated and are tax deductible. They'll not only support LLS-funded research but will 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 bring friends who would also like to donate!

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

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