Welcome To My Fundraising Page!

I am honored to be participating in The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) 2020 Students of the Year (SOY) campaign with my team, PLS for LLS. My team members and I are greatly committed to doing everything we can to support LLS’s mission: to find a cure for leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma, and to improve the quality of life of patients and their families.

I am raising funds in honor of those who are currently battling or are in remission from a blood cancer. As a high school student, I do not have many opportunities to be a part of something for a greater cause. Between sports and school, I often find myself caught up in my own little world. The work of LLS has helped me see the good that someone like myself can do for others. I hope to use this opportunity to bring attention to blood cancers like leukemia, which is the most common form of cancer in children and teens. 

My team is comprised of three candidate leaders: Patrick Hanley from Georgetown Prep (GP), Lizzy Clarke and Sarah Koudjeti from The Academy of the Holy Cross (AHC). We also have the following members helping us: Charlotte Whittier, Mikayla Day, Hannah Toth, Mackenzie Peacock, and Cassie Fredell from AHC; Michael Murphy and myself from GP; and Lindsay Smith from Bullis. We have pledged to raise $45,000 in a period of 7 weeks to help find a cure for blood cancers.

Because of campaigns like Students of the Year, LLS has seen tremendous success discovering new and more effective treatments for blood cancer patients and has created a new exciting initiative focusing on treatments for pediatric patients.

Check out some facts about the work LLS has done throughout the years:

• LLS funded 43 of the 49 FDA approved treatments for blood cancer patients since 2017
• Since 2000, more than 40% of the new cancer therapies approved by the FDA started as blood cancer research
• In 2019, LLS established The LLS Children’s Initiative, a comprehensive $50 MILLION multi-year endeavor, to help children with cancer through every facet of LLS’s mission:
  • More than doubling our investment in pediatric cancer research grants
  • Expanding education and support service for children and their families
  • Advocating for and driving policies to accelerate the development of new treatments and break down barriers to care
  • Launching LLS PedAL (Pediatric Acute Leukemia), a groundbreaking global precision medicine clinical trial in acute pediatric leukemia

And many LLS supported therapies not only help blood cancer patients but are now used to treat patients with rare forms of stomach and skin cancers. They're even being tested in clinical trials for patients with a range of cancers including lung, brain, breast, pancreatic and prostate cancers. LLS funded drugs are now being tested for patients with other non-cancerous diseases like Diabetes, Rheumatoid Arthritis and Multiple Sclerosis.

LLS's continued advancements over the years are responsible for the blood cancer survival rate doubling and tripling; in some cases, the survival rate has even quadrupled.

Please join me in supporting my campaign and LLS by making a donation to my fundraising campaign. Please feel free to visit my fundraising page often to see any new updates in our campaign. Please pass this link along to any family members, friends, neighbors, coworkers, or anyone else you know. There is no donation too small, no share too insignificant. Finding a cure for cancer is no small task, and I know I will need all the help I can get if I want to achieve my goals for the campaign. Thanks to your support, my efforts will help fund the therapies and treatments and help save lives today.

All donations are greatly appreciated and are tax deductible. With your donation, you’re not only support LLS research but patient services, advocacy, public and professional education, and community services as well. Together WE CAN FIND A CURE!

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

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