Hi! My name is Emma! Welcome to my fundraising page!                                                                           

This year I have been honored to be nominated for the 2021 Student of the Year campaign. I accepted my nomination because it seemed like such an amazing opportunity for me. As a teenager, I find that while I want to make a difference, opportunities for people my age don't come very often, much less one this unique. This program allows participants to gain skills like leadership and teamwork which are vital for adult life while also helping an important cause, and I am so excited to take part!

Upon joining the Student of the Year program, I was asked to create a team and come up with a team name. The name I have chosen is The Most Important Role. I chose this name because I greatly enjoy taking part in theater. I love every aspect of it, but one of the most stressful times of the year for me is when the cast list comes out and I learn the role I will play for whatever project I've auditioned for. However, this campaign has taught me that no matter if you play an angel in your kindergarten Christmas pageant, or if you're in the ensemble in your high school musical, or if you go on to be a lead on broadway, the most important role you will ever play is the role you play in other peoples lives. This is the philosophy that I am basing my campaign on, and I'm so grateful to have the opportunity to play an impactful role in the lives of others.                                                           

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