ADVOCATE & NONPROFIT FOUNDER
After my own breast cancer diagnosis and choosing an aesthetic flat closure, I saw firsthand how much support matters beyond awareness. I founded Beyond Pink Ribbons to provide practical financial assistance to people facing breast cancer and to help ease some of the everyday burdens that don't stop simply because someone is in treatment.
PERSONAL INK (P.ink) DAY LEADER
I serve as a Personal Ink (P.ink) Day Leader, supporting P.ink Day events and the breast cancer community through advocacy, connection, and visibility.
Choosing to live flat became more than a surgical decision for me. It became part of how I advocate for choice, body confidence, visibility, and the right for every person to decide what feels right for their own body. Flat On Purpose™ grew from that belief—a message about living confidently and fully after breast cancer.
SELECTIVE MUTISM AWARENESS
As the mother of a daughter diagnosed with selective mutism at age five, raising awareness and helping others better understand this often-misunderstood anxiety disorder is deeply personal to me. That experience inspired me to write Have You Seen My Voice?, a children's book created to help children with selective mutism feel seen and to help parents, teachers, and others understand that silence does not mean a child has nothing to say.
Life hasn’t followed the path I once imagined. I’ve experienced motherhood, loss, breast cancer, heartbreak, change, and seasons that forced me to figure out who I was all over again.
Somewhere along the way, I stopped believing that starting over meant I had failed. Sometimes starting over is simply choosing yourself when the life you’ve been living no longer feels like your own.
Creativity became one of the places where I found my voice. Writing gave me a way to make sense of what I had lived through, advocacy gave those experiences purpose, and creating gave me the freedom to keep becoming the woman I wanted to be.
I’m still becoming. Still creating. Still taking chances. And most importantly, still choosing me.