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UCSFResearch Collaborator
Aug. 2024United StatesWe are a group of individuals and researchers from Hawaii and California building a computer analytics model that studies the cities in which the largest disparities exist. Currently we are refining the model and it will build out into a program that addresses the disparities within communities of color
USC Keck HospitalCommunity Advocate
Jul. 2017 - Jul. 2023I worked on a committee to work towards creating better outcomes for cancer patients. I was one of three community advocates who would work with various cancer doctors at the hospitals to improve outcomes.
UCSD healthResearch Collaborator
Jul. 2017 - Jul. 2020In 2017 I was recruited into the Cancer Support Network of doctors at USC Keck medicine center where I was one of three patient advocates who’s position it was to brief doctors on the needs of the cancer community we served as best we could see. From there I was recommended for a CBCRP ( California Breast Cancer Research Program) program to build new co-PI researchers out of non-profits in California serving the breast cancer survivor population. I was one of 8 non-profits chosen that year to participate. I was educated over a year in disparities, ethics, and grant writing. Part of the program was to develop a field of research, siting where the same field had been researched before. I chose Breast Cancer Survivors and the effects of exercise of body image and quality of life. Nothing like it had been studied before. As a part of the program I had to find a researcher at a UC that wished to participate. I found Sheri Hartman at UCSD. Together we were educated on working together and writing a grant for approval. I believe we were the only pilot project funded that year. We started the research in 2019 and wrapped up right before shut-down in 2020.
I was unable to continue onto a full research program because we had gotten custody of my great nieces who were greatly abused and they required full time care on my part. Another researcher has picked up the first of it’s kind study and gone on to begin a full research program based on our original research. There are smaller research programs I’ve continued with which is a Racial Disparities Statistics model through UCSF and USC and one I’m soon to start with USC aimed at using AI to help determine breast cancer through ultrasound and predictive software.
Haus of VoltaFounder & Creative Director
Mar. 2014 - Dec. 2023United StatesIn 2014 I saw that the majority of the breast cancer survivors I met in support groups were incredibly unhappy in their post-breast cancer treatment skin. But I was SO happy, what was the difference? I had used hobby modelling as a way of seeing myself as beautiful after treatment. So my husband and I came up with a model where I styled young breast cancer survivors as pinup models and my husband found classic cars for them to pose with. We got photographers to volunteer their time to photograph them. We took the photos and made them into a beautiful wall art calendar that we sold through our non-profit. At first getting our non-profit status was difficult, they didn't understand why we were doing what we did, how it was important and why we were a non-profit.
As the years passed on the calendar became very popular and more people than we could accommodate wished to participate! Though our social media branding of inclusion and exception we were approached by USC to become a community advocate. From there I was approached by The CBCRP to be trained as a community outreach researcher. I was trained for 9 months on disparities, ethics and grant writing. It was part of the curriculum to develop a field of study, which I found no previous study information on. That being Breast Cancer and the effects of exercise on body image and quality of life. I needed to find a researcher at a UC who was in a field that applied and who was willing to participate. That was Sheri Hartman of UCSD. Together we wrote a study and I believe we were the only group that year to have our pilot study funded. It ran from 2019 - 2020. It's currently been picked up by another researcher to do a full study.
I have had countless opportunities to speak, advocate and move the lives of young people effected by breast cancer. It's one of my proudest accomplishments.
Leonards Carpet ServiceData Entry
Nov. 1991 - Nov. 1998United StatesOver the years I worked the front reception desk, data entry, accounting, filing all the way to inventory and driving a forklift!
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