Speaker
Ysabel Duron
The Latino Cancer Institute
Ysabel Duron is a pioneering, award-winning Latina journalist, a cancer survivor, and for the last 23 years, a leading patient activist around Latino community engagement. Her encore career as a cancer patient advocate and non-profit agency builder commenced when she was diagnosed with cancer in 1999. This past February President Joe Biden appointed Duron to the National Cancer Advisory Board which advises the Director of the National Cancer Institute. She is the first patient advocate to serve on the NCAB. Duron describes her “work in and with community,” as a learning classroom and credits the experi