Welcome to my fundraising page!

Hi! My name is Christina May and I am currently a senior at Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, MD. I've been familiar with The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS) for years since my older sisters both led fundraising teams and I participated in this same campaign last year as a team member. This year, I decided to take charge and became a co-candidate for team “May the Cure Be With You!” During my 2020 campaign, I raised over $8,000, which I couldn't believe. My experience with LLS last year was so rewarding and humbling to me that I was ecstatic to be given the opportunity to further my involvement for this worthy cause of supporting blood cancer research. 

Every year, LLS honors a child hero who is battling or has battled a form of blood cancer. This Year's honored hero, Kory Coates, unfortunately passed away after battling acute myeloid leukemia (AML) for years. Hearing this news was heartbreaking, but it pushed my determination to fight for a cure even further so that fewer families have to suffer the loss of a loved one to cancer. I am excited to share that this year, my personal fundraising goal is $15,000! I am looking forward to the next seven weeks to see if I can reach, and possibly exceed, my goal to change the lives of others, and I encourage YOU to join me in supporting LLS by making a donation to my campaign.

By donating to LLS, you support the many facets of LLS’s mission work from investing in groundbreaking research, providing education and support to patients, and advocating at the state and federal level for legislation to help those living with cancer. My appreciation for your support cannot be overstated — each and every dollar donated to LLS brings us closer to our goal to end blood cancer and makes an impact for cancer patients and their families.

As a global leader in the fight to end cancer, LLS is committed to doing more for blood cancer patients and families than any organization in the world. LLS’s signature fundraising campaigns drive critical support for its mission, including a nearly $1.3 billion investment in cutting edge cancer research worldwide since it was founded in 1949. Since the 1960s, survival rates for many blood cancer patients have doubled, tripled, or even quadrupled.

Every facet of LLS’s mission – research, education and support, and policy and advocacy – work in harmony to put blood cancer patients and their families first. LLS has helped millions impacted by cancer throughout its more than 70-year history, even funding breakthrough blood cancer research to advance lifesaving treatments and cures that is now helping patients with other cancers and diseases. That is why at LLS we say that beating cancer is in our blood.

Together, we have the power, the passion and the resolve to achieve a world without blood cancer. All donations are tax-deductible.

On behalf of cancer patients and their families everywhere, I sincerely thank you for your support!

For more information about LLS, please visit lls.org

Here are some pictures of me and my family and from the LLS Grand Finale Gala from last year! On the left is a picture of me and Tessa Nellis, my other co-candidate for May the Cure Be With You. Both pictures on the middle and right are of me and my family!