From: San Francisco
To: The Moon
How:
GOAL
DISTANCE: 239257.1mi
TIME: 71days
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Our team the Myeloma Moonshots is working to raise as much as possible over the next 10 weeks. Every dollar we raise counts as one vote for me. The candidate whose team tallies the most votes earns the prestigious title of "Woman of the Year".
Most of my friends and family aren't aware that I was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2014. This brought many challenges and forever changed the course of my life.
As you may or may not know, my philanthropic efforts have been primarily focused on raising awareness surrounding the lack of representation of underrepresented individuals in technology. However, recent events with the pandemic have highlighted inequity in healthcare practices from treatments to clinical studies. Multiple myeloma only accounts for 2% of all cancers BUT is the most common blood cancer in African Americans. African Americans have more than twice the incidence rate of multiple myeloma compared to white Americans. Due to myeloma being twice as common in the African American population, it is very important to diagnose the disease early on. As we find better ways to treat the disease and possibly even prevent it from becoming active, it is imperative for the African American community to be aware of the onset of the disease. The lack of relative improvement in survival in African Americans with myeloma is complex but is likely due to multiple factors, including reduced use of autologous stem cell transplant, access to novel therapies, and enrollment in clinical trials.
Each year, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society launches its Man & Woman of the Year fundraising campaign, and I am honored to be nominated for this year’s efforts as Woman of the Year. I am writing today to ask for your support of LLS’s mission in its efforts to find cures for blood cancers and to assist patients and families as they battle this disease. I would not be here today without the medical advances made possible by research funding provided by organizations such as LLS.
$0 raised since 24 Mar 2021.
I am embarking on a mission and I would like to take you on this mission with me!
The Mission:
As I have mentioned previously, I have been nominated for The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's woman of the year award The Man & Woman of the Year Campaign is a 10-week fundraising competition amongst some of the most philanthropic leaders across the Greater Bay Area. I have assembled an amazing team that is sentimentally named Myeloma Moonshots!
Myeloma is a type of cancer that begins in your bone marrow. More than 30,000 Americans are diagnosed with myeloma every year, leading to more than 12,000 deaths—and Black people are at twice the risk for myeloma as whites.
We’re teaming up to run, walk, cycle, and stroll our way to increasing access to education and treatment for myeloma for everyone impacted by this disease. It might sound like a moonshot, but we can do it! The distance from the moon to the Earth is 238,900 miles. If we can log 1% of those miles (2,389) and raise $10 per mile, we’ll make a huge impact.
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Thank you for considering joining the Myeloma Moonshots mission. I can’t wait to see how far we can go together!
Warm Regards,
