I'm Too Young For This! Cancer Foundation :: The Voice Of Young Adults

YOUNG ADULT LEADERSHIP CABINET (YALC)

The i[2]y Young Adult Leadership Cabinet (YALC) is an elected national volunteer board of young adult survivors, co-survivors and activists who serve as a governing body that oversees the actions of the Stupid Cancer Task Force. The YALC answers directly to CEO Matthew Zachary and the i[2]y Board of Directors and is primarily chartered with developing, overseeing and orchestrating grassroots activity, social event planning, community development, fundraising, public awareness and peer support connections.

Like members of our task force, YALC members are not just looking for ribbons and rhetoric, but true action to change the way we think about cancer in our own generation; a generation that has been lost in a gap and ignored by the system; a generation that is pissed off; a generation that does not benefit from the efforts (support, research, early detection and prevention) of the big box cancer organizations who are saving lives for boomers and seniors but not for us.

Members, candidates and applicants make a personal commitment to the 'stupid cancer movement' and take advantage of exclusive opportunities (street teams, guerilla tactics, grass roots mobilizing) to ensure our voice will be heard and change will come.

If you are interested in executive volunteership opportunitirs and would like to learn more about SCTF and YALC, click here.

YALC OFFICERS

Aaron Spicer
Chairman
Akron, OH
Regional Chair, North/Midwest US
Non-godnal Germ Cell Seminoma Survivor, Dx 2006

Jack Bouffard
Chief Cancer Anarchist
VP, Membership
Danbury, CT
Regional Chair, i[2]y Connecticut
Hodgkin's Lymphoma Survivor, Dx 2008

YALC MEMBERS

Kimberly Hicks
Chief Blonde Ambition
Sacramento, CA
Regional Co-Chair, Northern CA/Mountain
Ewing's Sarcoma Survivor, Dx 1996 & 2000
Renal Cell Carcinoma Survivor, Dx 2003

Carolyn Koncal
Columbus, OH
Regional Co-Chair, i[2]y Ohio
Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Survivor, Dx 1994

Trish Loftis
Nashville, TN
Regional Chair, i[2]y Nashville
Hodgkin's Lymphoma Survivor, Dx 2007

Jennifer Pates
Lake Mary, FL
Regional Chair, i[2]y Florida
Cervical Cancer Survivor, Dx 2003

Leah Shearer
Rochester, NY
Regional Chair, i[2]y Rochester
Thyroid Survivor, Dx 2004
Hodgkins Lymphoma Stage IIB Survivor, Dx 2006

Feeling isolated? The channels below will connect you with hundreds of age-appropriate resources and open the door to socially network with countless thousands of young adult survivors and caregivers.

young adult support

general cancer support

scholarships & financial aid

excursions & retreats

forums & chat rooms

social networking

young adult blogosphere

coping literature

books, mags, films and media

advocacy tools

cancer creative

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