Our annual Butterfly Ball raises critical mission-driven funds and gives us a chance to honor five amazing women who will share stories about how they are impacting their neighborhoods, communities, health care systems, and research institutions. Join us on November 11.
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2023 Co-Chairs:
Jonathan Bank, MD, FACS
Ron Israeli, MD, FACS
Coco Lloyd and Chelsey Pickthorn
Valerie Miller and Charles Riscavage
Crystal Thompson and Michael Pearson
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Presenting Sponsor
Dana Donofree
Founder & CEO, AnaOno
Andrea and Abraham Morris Impact Award Honoree
Diagnosed with breast cancer in her 20’s, Dana Donofree founded AnaOno out of her own necessity and desire for not only beautiful but comfortable lingerie that fit her surgically altered body. After a mastectomy with reconstruction traditional bras no longer fit, and Dana was certain there must be more than just sports bras and camisoles out there. With a degree in fashion design from Savannah College of Art and Design, and a quite successful fashion industry career, she took her decade-plus of product experience and put it toward designing, launching, and building AnaOno, Intimates Designed Differently. Learn more.
Abby Match
Patient Advocate
Donna Noce Colaco Going Beyond Award Honoree
Abby Match is by trade a Speech Language Pathologist in Early Intervention throughout Philadelphia County. She became a breast cancer advocate after a diagnosis at 35 years young.
Getting a triple negative breast cancer diagnosis and later discovering she carries a BRCA1 mutation was devastating, but she has learned to turn her pain into another’s gain. She networks to learn how to help others get screened for genetic mutations prior to disease and she wholeheartedly loves fundraising.
She contributes to organizations that are impactful in the lives of people living with cancer and wants to be a voice for others. She is a wife to her husband, Seth, and a proud Mom to her 8-year-old daughter, Yael. Learn more.
Gina J. Range
Vice President of Development, Opera Philadelphia
Donna Noce Colaco Going Beyond Award Honoree
Gina J. Range is a seasoned fundraising professional with over 25 years of experience. As a native Philadelphian, Gina has supported numerous arts institutions in the city, currently she holds the role of Vice President of Development with nationally renowned Opera Philadelphia. Previously she worked at the Philadelphia Orchestra Association where she designed and managed major fundraising campaigns, helped shape their development department, and created structure for their successful endowment and capital campaigns. Learn more.
Ali Rogin
PBS NewsHour Correspondent/Producer
Donna Noce Colaco Going Beyond Award Honorees
Ali Rogin is a correspondent with the PBS NewsHour and the author of Beat Breast Cancer Like A Boss. During her senior year at New York University, she discovered she had the BRCA1 genetic mutation and decided to have prophylactic surgery before her graduation in 2009. A New Jersey native, Rogin lives with her husband Josh and daughter Anne in Washington, D.C. Learn more.
Stephanie Walker
Patient Advocate
Donna Noce Colaco Going Beyond Award Honoree
Stephanie Walker was diagnosed in July 2015 with de novo metastatic breast cancer. Stephanie is a registered nurse with close to 40 years of clinical practice and secondary teaching experience. Her experience has included pediatric and adult critical care, working in level one trauma centers and critical access hospitals. The last 15 years of nursing she has worked in hospice, end of life, care. She is married and lives in Tarboro, North Carolina, with husband John and rescue dog Sammy. They have three adult children and six grandchildren. Learn more.
Purchase a copy of Reblossom, a collection of immersive art and stories created by Erez Sabag in collaboration with Jonathan Bank, MD that compare the elegance and regeneration of flowers to the beauty and resilience of women affected by breast cancer. 100% of proceeds benefit Living Beyond Breast Cancer.
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