Reading Time: 2 minutes As a doctoral candidate at the University of Florida in Educational Leadership, I would have considered myself a traditional student. I volunteered in community equitable education missions, served as a
Reading Time: 3 minutes Cancer has been a presence in my life from a young age. When I was two years old, my maternal grandmother passed away from ovarian cancer. When I was eight,
Reading Time: 4 minutes My name is Erin Coffman, and I am a sixth-year doctoral candidate in the Department of Nutrition at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Gillings School of Global Public Health.
Reading Time: 4 minutes In August 2017, my life took an unexpected turn when I was diagnosed with breast cancer during my final year of undergraduate studies. At the beginning of the summer, I
Reading Time: 2 minutes When I was 17 years old, my grandpa was diagnosed with lymph node cancer. I remember visiting him in the hospital and seeing him cry for the first time in
Reading Time: 2 minutes When I was a fourth grader in elementary school, my older sister was a senior in high school. She used to hang out with her friends at our house and
