Reading Time: < 1 minute   Luther shares his story at our 2024 Albuquerque Takeover Storytelling Open Mic. The post Luther appeared first on Stupid Cancer ..read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute   Jade shares her story at our 2024 Albuquerque Takeover Storytelling Open Mic. The post Jade appeared first on Stupid Cancer ..read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute   Kayla shares her story at our 2024 Albuquerque Takeover Storytelling Open Mic. The post Kayla appeared first on Stupid Cancer ..read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes As a doctoral candidate at the University of Florida in Educational Leadership, I would have considered myself a traditional student. I volunteered in community equitable education missions, served as a graduate research assistant, and spent semesters engaging in fellowships and internships to better prepare myself for life after graduation. In the Fall of 2023, I celebrated my early graduation from my Masters program and was close to finishing my doctoral coursework. In early Spring 2023, I had passed my qualifying exams toward my dissertation, celebrating the accompli ..read more

Reading Time: 5 minutes In the beginning of my 2023 Fall semester, I was a senior at Ramapo College of New Jersey, majoring in Social Work with a double minor in Criminal Justice and Substance Use. Along with my academics, I had an internship twice a week at the County Prosecutor’s Office in the Victim Witness Unit and was the Captain of Ramapo’s Cheerleading Team. As you can most likely tell, I had a very busy schedule with class, my part-time gymnastics coaching job, and cheer practice. Growing up, I was a dedicated athlete, as I did competitive gymnastics and trained multiple times a week ..read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes My name is Allison Lazard. With my cancer communication research, I focus on ways to improve the design of health messages and online resources for cancer prevention and support. I didn’t start my career thinking I would be a researcher. I went to school to be a commercial photographer (undergrad) and then a multimedia designer (master’s). It wasn’t until I was out there working as a multimedia designer that I got the itch for research. I wanted to do more and know more about how design could improve health communication and help people. So, I went to get a PhD. Now I h ..read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes Cancer has been a presence in my life from a young age. When I was two years old, my maternal grandmother passed away from ovarian cancer. When I was eight, I watched my aunt’s bubbly spirit fade and her long hair thin as she underwent chemotherapy for triple negative breast cancer, my hatred for “cancer” intensifying. It was only later that I learned the full impact of this experience on her – receiving a cancer diagnosis in her twenties, 5 weeks postpartum, with the recent memory of her mother’s cancer battle. Her hope for future childbearing took a backseat as she ch ..read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute   Molly shares her story at our 2024 Atlanta Takeover Storytelling Open Mic. The post Molly appeared first on Stupid Cancer ..read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute   Charisse shares her story at our 2024 Atlanta Takeover Storytelling Open Mic. The post Charisse appeared first on Stupid Cancer ..read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute   Theresa shares her story at our 2024 Digital CancerCon Open Mic. The post Theresa appeared first on Stupid Cancer ..read more