Today, one in eight American women are diagnosed with breast cancer.  The National Breast Cancer Coalition believes you can help change those statistics for your generation. We invite you to join the National Breast Cancer Coalition’s new Emerging Leaders program to eradicate breast cancer and to attend its inaugural meeting on October 18-19, 2009 in Washington, DC.

To change the systems that impact all of us and fight back against breast cancer, we need you to get involved and be a part of breast cancer activism and health care reform. When you join Emerging Leaders, you will be connected with other people across the country just like yourself.

 In EL, you will have an opportunity to take our unique educational program, Project Lead^®,  which gives advocates the power to contribute meaningfully and change research, health care delivery systems and public policy.

 In EL, you will be trained to be advocates for issues that affect both your state and the nation. You will be taught how to lobby effectively for legislation needed to ensure that the right research is pursued and that the health care system works for all of us.

Please join us on October 18-19 in Washington, DC as we launch the Emerging Leaders Initiative. We invite you to take part in a day of workshops with leaders in the field and young leaders like yourself to discuss current legislation and policy concerning breast cancer, spend time on Capitol Hill and help shape this new and exciting branch of the National Breast Cancer Coalition. For additional information and to register, click here. Contact Sharon Ford Watkins at sfwatkins@stopbreastcancer.org for more information.

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