Babs Wallace
Patient Advocate, Virginia
Highlights
- Speaker & advisory committee member, 2026 Conference on Metastatic Breast Cancer
- 2024 Hear My Voice Advocate
- Co-founder & co-leader of employee resource group for staff with disabilities and neurodivergence at her job
Babs is a 2024 Hear My Voice advocate and a metastatic breast cancer thriver who challenges both stigma and toxic positivity surrounding illness. She shares the full spectrum of breast cancer — holding space for hard days alongside hopeful ones — to empower others with metastatic disease and help build more welcoming, inclusive communities.
As co-founder and co-leader of an employee resource group for staff with disabilities and neurodivergence at the environmental nonprofit where she works, Babs advances inclusion and workplace policies that center the lived experiences of people with disabilities and people who are neurodivergent. She is also continuing to develop her media advocacy skills to amplify breast cancer stories beyond Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Outside of her advocacy work, Babs is at her best in a dramatic sleeve, during slow mornings with her husband and their dog, Valentine, or swaying slightly while enjoying a really good meal.
Others who have generously and openly shared their breast cancer stories have helped me to process my own diagnosis, progression, and ongoing treatments. In sharing my own experiences, I hope to pay it forward to this community and support others as they seek connection, resources, and tools to navigate the absolute trash experience that is cancer.