Meet Dean Crowe:

Dean started the Rally Foundation as a way to help in this ongoing Pediatric Cancer fight. Dean will talk about the 20 million dollars that her foundation has now given out in grants to Pediatric Cancer researchers and oncologists, her Rally Kids programs, her total passion for helping all of these patients, and the fact that 93 cents out of every dollar raised goes towards their Mission of defeating all forms of pediatric cancer. 

Meet Ruth Hoffman:

Ruth is the Chief Executive Officer of the American Childhood Cancer Organization, which is located just outside of Washington, D.C. This is the largest grassroots Pediatric Cancer organization in the United States, and was founded by a group of influential parents who met while their children were all undergoing treatment for various forms of cancer at a local hospital in 1968.  Ruth talks about joining this organization as its CEO in 1998 and how it has evolved into such an important piece of this fight to eradicate Pediatric Cancer. 

 Meet Kathleen Ruddy:

Kathleen is the Chief Executive Officer of the St. Baldrick's Foundation which is located in Los Angeles. Kathleen will talk about the concept of head shaving as a way to raise money for Pediatric Cancer and how this foundation has grown from its initial event on St. Patrick's Day of 2000 which raised $104,000, to the point where it has now given out $317 million dollars in research grants. The St. Baldrick's Foundation is now the largest private funder of of Pediatric Cancer research grants in the United States. 

Meet Leanne Masten:-  

Leanne will speak about her 4 year daughter Addi, who was diagnosed with Stage 4, High Risk Neuroblastoma in 2018 at the age of 2. Addi has fought a heroic battle against the ravages of this very difficult Pediatric Cancer, and now she is cancer free and healthy. Addi's journey has inspired over 270,000 people to follow her on facebook

Meet Zack Blackburn: Zack is the Director of the Boston Marathon Jimmy Fund Walk. This walk is the largest participatory event that the Jimmy Fund sponsors and is the biggest charity walk in the United States from a fundraising standpoint. The event annually raises about 8 million dollars each year and approximately 8500 people participate in it. Zack will talk about how the participants walk 26.2, 13.1, 6.2., or 3.1 miles from either Hopkinton, Wellesley, Newton, or the Dana Farber to Copley Square, where this great celebration continues

Meet Jeanine McManus: Jeanine will talk about her initial nursing experiences as a travel nurse including her time spent at Bethesda Naval Hospital, her 11 years of volunteering during summers at the iconic Hole In The Wall Gang Camp, and finally putting her roots down at Children's Hospital here in Boston. Jeanine is a Procedural Nurse who specializes in Procedural Sedation with pediatric cancer patients who mainly are being treated for blood cancers or brain tumors. 

Meet Michael Dotto: Michael was first diagnosed with Hodgkins Disease in 1976 at the age of 16. Since that time, he has battled a number of health related issues, many of them caused, at least in part, by the amount of radiation he received during his first bout with cancer. Michael has made "giving back" a major part of his life as he has walked the entire 26.2 miles of the Jimmy Fund Walk for each of the past 32 years, and started a major Jimmy Fund Wine Tasting fundraiser called Raise Your Glass For Jimmy. Michael talks about these experiences plus having to once again confront another battle with the enemy known as Cancer. 

Meet Bob Horan: Bob was a legendary and beloved volunteer on the oncology ward at Children's Hospital in Boston for almost 17 years. "Tuesday Bob" as he was affectionally known as, talks about his experiences visiting thousands of Pediatric Cancer Patients and their parents and his love for Children's Hospital

Meet Liz Scott: Liz is the co founder of the Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation. This foundation was started by Liz and her husband Jay after their daughter Alexandra passed away from Neuroblastoma in 2004, at the age of eight. Alex, as everyone called her, decided at the age of 4 to start a lemonade stand to help kids who had cancer. Just two weeks before her passing, she achieved her goal of raising one million dollars with this lemonade stand concept. This foundation has grown from a million and a half dollars when it was started in 2005, to a foundation that has raised over 200 million dollars to help in this Pediatric Cancer Fight. Liz tells a remarkable story of her amazing daughter Alex and a foundation that has benefited so many Pediatric Cancer Patients.

Meet Casey Wall : Casey is a Nurse Practitioner at Children's Hospital and Dana Farber. She will talk about her early days as nurse at Children's Hospital in Philadelphia, her time at the Columbia University Medical Center where she worked in helping Bone Marrow Transplant patients, and her role now at Children's where she works with Pediatric Cancer patients who have solid tumor cancers.