2023 Butterfly Ball: Life in Bloom

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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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Andrea and Abraham Morris Impact Award Honoree:

Dana Donofree

Founder & CEO, AnaOno

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.

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Donna Noce Colaco Going Beyond Award Honorees:

Abby Match

Patient Advocate

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. She is a wife to her husband, Seth, and a proud Mom to her 8-year-old daughter, Yael.

Gina J. Range

Vice President of Development, Opera Philadelphia

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.

Ali Rogin

PBS NewsHour Correspondent/Producer

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.

Stephanie Walker

Patient Advocate

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.

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