Hi! I am thrilled to let all of you know I am a team member of the The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s 2021 Students of the Year (SOY) Campaign. 

SOY is a seven-week campaign in which select high school students are encouraged to raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Over these next seven weeks, teams from across the country will compete to raise money for the LLS. I am one of 13 members of a high school team called SWAG (Students With a Goal). This year, our team set a huge fundraising goal of $50,000 and we need your help to reach this target amount and support LLS’s mission to eradicate blood cancer!

During the fall of 2019, I attended the Leukemia and Lymphoma’s Society’s Light The Night event to support my good friend, Isaac, who was diagnosed with Leukemia during our freshman year of high school.  His diagnosis opened my eyes to the urgency of finding a cure for blood cancer as well as provided a glimpse into all of the incredible work that LLS does to fund research for a cure and to push for policy changes to help cancer patients. I knew immediately after attending Light The Night I wanted to become more involved with LLS’s mission. 

After receiving groundbreaking cancer treatments, Isaac has continued to improve and thankfully remain healthy. With COVID-19, cancer patients have been hit harder than ever and LLS’s contributions to cancer research and funding has never been so critical.  LLS has done so much work to improve the lives of many, including my friend Isaac. Each and every dollar matters, so I want to thank all of you who make a donation to help LLS continue saving lives and investing in research for a cure for blood cancers. 

Thank you for visiting my fundraising page, welcome!

I encourage you to join me in supporting The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) by making a donation to my fundraising 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.

Please visit my website as often as you can and share it with everyone you know who would also like to join us in the fight against cancer. 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