It’s Giving Tuesday!
- 28 Nov, 2023
- The Latino Cancer Institute
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It’s Giving Tuesday!
Support research, education, and advocacy. See what your gift makes possible.
Your support allows us to continue to do critical work like convening our annual Forum. This past October, the Institute’s Forum focused on the impact of climate change on the Latino cancer burden.
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Among our eight expert presenters, Amy Liebman, MPA, Chief Program Officer of Workers, Environment and Climate, Migrant Clinician Network, spotlighted migrant farmworkers and the extreme heat, pesticide exposure and wildfires that threaten their lives. Pesticide exposure has been linked to prostate cancer, brain cancer, breast cancer, and leukemia. Risks are amplified for pregnant farm workers exposed on the job, as pesticide exposure has also been linked to childhood leukemia.
(Photo: Migrant farmworkers have an increased risk of cancers due to exposure to pesticides, extreme heat, and wildfires.)
One Forum attendee wrote:”I want to congratulate you on an excellent forum this year. It was educational, thought-provoking and motivational for a call-to-action. Felicitaciones, Ysabel!!!”
– Olympia Cepeda, MPH (she/her/ella), Director of LatinaSHARE and Senior Outreach, LatinaSHARE Apoyo y Educación de Cáncer
(Photo: Joaquin Castro being interviewed by Ysabel Duron at the 5th Annual National Forum)
And we are excited that our special guest, cancer survivor and Texas Congressman, Joaquin Castro, has agreed to be our ally in addressing ongoing policy issues of concern. At the end of the conversation, the San Antonio representative told us he would engage the Congressional Hispanic Caucus to focus more on cancer in the Latino community.
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Your gift on this Giving Tuesday will help advance this important work. May your holidays be blessed, safe, and joyous. Thank you.
