Thank you for visiting my page. I am excited to be part of the Student of the Year team, team Raise Hope Together. Our goal is to raise money for cancer research. When Jack and Grace Sherner, lifelong family friends, asked me to participate, I thought about  the many people in my life that have been touched by cancer in some way. Cancer has affected my grandparents and close family friends. When I was younger, my family helped take care of a child whose mom was suffering and eventually died from cancer. This experience has always stayed with me.  It showed me firsthand how much the entire family and community is impacted when someone suffers from cancer. While LLS specializes in fighting blood cancers, the majority of all cancer treatments come from developments with blood cancers.  

I have signed up to save lives with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) and am working to raise as much as possible over the next 7 weeks. Every dollar raised counts as one vote for my campaign. The candidate(s) whose team tallies the most votes earns the prestigious title of Student or Students of the Year. Will you help me earn that title?
 
As you know, everyone wins when cancer loses. Thanks to your support, my efforts will help fund therapies and treatments that are saving lives. Over the years, support from people like you has been responsible for the blood cancer advancements that have doubled, tripled, and in some cases quadrupled the survival rate for some blood cancers.
 
Many LLS-supported therapies not only help blood cancer patients but are also now used to treat patients with rare forms of stomach and skin cancers and are in clinical trials for patients with lung, brain, breast, pancreatic and prostate cancers. And LLS-funded drugs like targeted therapies and immunotherapies are now saving thousands of lives every day.
 
We really are getting close to our goal of a world without blood cancers!
 
All donations are greatly appreciated and tax-deductible. They'll not only support LLS research, but patient services, advocacy, public and professional education, and community services as well.
 
Please visit my website often and tell friends who would also like to donate!
 
On behalf of blood cancer patients everywhere, thank you for your support! For more information about LLS, please visit www.lls.org