Thank you for visiting my fundraising page, welcome! For those who don't know me, my name is Sofia Marzullo and I'm a junior attending Maret School. I am an editor and contributor of Maret’s student diversity publication: InLight Magazine. I am also an editor of my school’s literary and visual arts digital magazine: Inflorescence. This is my first year raising money for the LLS Student of the Year Campaign as a team member and I couldn’t be more excited to raise awareness and work to make a difference in this effort!

I decided to join this campaign in honor of my two best friends who have both survived cancer, one of them being a co-candidate on the team, Alexandra McArver! I am very fortunate to have them both in my life, however, I am aware that their battles were far from easy. Cancer has found its way to touch all of us, whether it be through a personal experience, a loved one's, or someone in our community's. So with that, I hope you'll help to support LLS's mission to end blood cancer! Whether you donate or simply spread the LLS message, anything is greatly appreciated towards this movement :) 

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