Not many talk about the social life of a cancer patient. In this talk, Hailey Johnston talks about her experience fighting cancer.
Hailey is a Sophomore at the University of North Carolina- Asheville and is a double major in Psychology and Political Science and a double minor in Spanish and International Studies, an Admissions Ambassador, and a member of the Freshman Orientation Blue Crew. She is the oldest of six children, a survivor of Hodgkin's Lymphoma Stage 2B cancer, and founder of a charity called ESCAPE for teenagers and young adults battling cancer. She is an ambassador on the North Carolina Council for Women, a Youth Legislative Assembly Alumni where she assisted in writing legislation on the implementation of school nurses in charter schools and wrote legislation on having home-bound educators for public and charter schools in every school district across North Carolina. Additionally, she was a member of the Leadership Institute in high school, participated in the Triangle Youth Leadership Conference for two years at North Carolina State University, and interned at the Michigan State University Law and
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
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