Brinker: Quite A Punch, But Peoria Not Down For The Count

By Nancy G. Brinker February 14, 2017 Peoria Journal Star On Washington Street in Downtown Peoria sits the Caterpillar Visitors Center & Museum. Opened in 2012, the 50,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility celebrates the company’s roots in Peoria going back 107 years and, more importantly, lays out a vision for its future. That future, up until recently, […]

Please Aim The ‘Cancer Moonshot’ At The Stars

December 8, 2016 By Nancy G. Brinker and Eric T. Rosenthal Originally published in The Hill A suggestion for President-elect Trump while he’s draining the Washington swamp: Don’t always throw out the baby with the swamp water. He’s already indicated that he’s willing to do that with the Affordable Care Act, since he now seems open to […]

Trump’s Can-Do Cabinet

By Nancy G. Brinker December 1, 2016 The Hill In building an internationally recognized organization from a kitchen table to a boardroom, I had a long experience with, and was privileged to have, great colleagues in building an amazing team around a mission to accomplish great things. President-elect Donald Trump has set forth a mission: […]

MIAMI HERALD, “OP-ED: LGBT PEOPLE DESERVE FAIRNESS ON THE JOB”

March 10, 2015 Miami Herald LGBT People Deserve Fairness on the Job By Nancy G. Brinker Considering the successes we’ve achieved over the years, it is difficult to imagine that in our lifetime women felt a shame and stigma around breast cancer — one that a small group of women and I vowed to end […]

HUFFINGTON POST, “PICTURE IT. I DARE YOU.”

March 9, 2015 Huffington Post Picture It. I Dare You. By Nancy G. Brinker On March 8, International Women’s Day, the hue and cry for gender equity and a better life for girls and women galvanizes around the theme, “Empowering Women –Empowering Humanity: Picture It!” with the United Nations aiming to “mobilize all people to […]

AMONG THE MASTERPIECES IN HUNGARY

By Kathy A. Megyeri Fairfield-Sun, October 11, 2013 After spending 34 years teaching high school English, you can imagine how excited I was to be asked to accompany Ambassador Nancy Brinker, CEO of Komen for the Cure, to Hungary, where she was going to purchase more Hungarian art for her renowned collection in an attempt […]

POLITICO, “OP-ED: ONE PREVENTABLE DEATH IS TOO MANY”

Politico Op-Ed: One Preventable Death is Too Many By Nancy G. Brinker In sub-Saharan Africa, breast and cervical cancers take the lives of more than 100,000 women each year. And in countries such as Zambia, 37.1 percent of women who die of breast cancer are in their productive and reproductive years. Sadly, cervical cancer is […]

USA TODAY, “DISPARITIES IN BREAST CANCER TREATMENT: COLUMN”

USA Today Disparities in breast cancer treatment: Column By Nancy G. Brinker Angelina Jolie, at 37 years of age, performed a tremendous public service when she recently announced she had a preventive double mastectomy to minimize her risk of getting cancer. She explained that she did so because she carries the BRCA1 gene mutation, which […]