Hello and welcome to my fundraising page!

I am honored to be a candidate for the 2020 Students of the Year program, a seven-week initiative in which select high school students and their teams from around the country participate in a fundraising competition to benefit The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. The candidate whose team raises the most money at the end of the seven weeks is named Student of the Year.

Each dollar we raise is not only a vote for my team, Team Put Cancer on the Ropes, but it brings us all one step closer to finding a cure for blood cancer.  My mission is not only to 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.

LLS is an organization that is very close to my heart. Before I was born, my paternal grandfather, for whom I was named, died of non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Since then, my family has been involved in all sorts of LLS fundraisers. Thus, LLS has been a big part of my life since birth--from raising money through lemonade stands (pictured below), to being on other Students of the Year teams in the past, to now being a SOY candidate myself. This year is an important one to me, as it marks the twentieth anniversary of the Howse family's work with LLS to find a cure.

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! 

Beating cancer is in our blood, let's find a cure together!

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