My Mission
Reducing the stigma around seeking mental health care for cancer survivors and supporting research and policy to ensure evidence-based mental health services are available for survivors upon departure from treatment.
A Little About Me
I am a two-time cancer survivor and the daughter of two cancer survivors. Fourteen of my immediate family members have experienced cancer. For 20 years my career focused on mental health. Initially, my work was on the assessment and treatment of mental illnesses. The past decade and a half were spent overseeing a mental health journalism fellowship program for former U.S. First Lady Rosalynn Carter.
Married for the first time at age 40, I am now building a life in northern Georgia with my husband and learning motherhood on the fly by raising my two stepsons and being an aunt and great aunt to 26. My husband is a geneticist and CEO of a biotechnology company that undertakes antibody discovery – some of which is applied to cancer treatment research.
“My writing is both personal and professional as I seek to answer the question, “How does one rebuild a life after a serious health crisis?” ”