American Program Bureau (APB) offers a wide range of speakers who have been affected by breast cancer in one capacity or another. Whether survivors who share their experience and inspire others, celebrities who create awareness or medical experts who translate medical knowledge into real life understanding, APB’s breast cancer speakers help educate audiences about the disease.
**Don't forget: October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and popular breast cancer speakers' schedules fill up fast. Check out our Breast Cancer Awareness Month speakers page for fresh ideas for your Breast Cancer Awareness Month engagements.
Kelly Corrigan
The New York Times best-selling author of The Middle Place and Lift, Corrigan has a way of connecting with readers and audiences alike. Sharing life experiences from battling breast cancer at the young age of 36, to learning of her father's late-stage cancer, to the emotional struggles and personal ...
Malaak Compton-Rock
A graceful and inspirational force, Compton-Rock is devoted to volunteerism and focuses on such issues as youth, women’s empowerment, and education. Founder of The Angelrock Project, she works to promote social responsibility and encourages us all to live a life of service. A judge on Oprah’s Big Give, a ...
Susan Love
Under her direction, The Revlon/UCLA Breast Center developed the first comprehensive practice guidelines on breast disease and was designated one of the top ten hospitals for women. Helped found the National Breast Cancer Coalition which increased research funding from $90 million to $410 million in two years.
Rhonda Kallman
Recognized as the "Pioneering Woman in the Beer Industry," Rhonda Kallman is the co-founder of Boston Beer Company (the maker of Sam Adams beers), where she helped revolutionize craft brewing. She is currently the CEO of McMillan Distillery.
Holly Robinson Peete
For nearly two decades, Peete has been a television star with high-profile roles that cross over between comedy and drama. Married to Carolina Panthers quarterback Rodney Peete, the Peetes have formed a foundation HollyRod, with the mission to help improve the lives of people plagued with devastating life circumstances. ...
Ricardo Antonio Chavira
Ricardo Antonio Chavira went from relative anonymity to international fame as Wisteria Lane’s resident bad boy “Carlos Solis,” on ABC's Desperate Housewives. He is San Antonio’s honorary spokesman for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, having become fervently committed to the cause after ...
Geralyn Lucas
Geralyn Lucas was only 27 when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Shaking the foundations of her world, she was faced with the harrowing decision of whether or not to undergo a mastectomy. She shares her incredible journey in her memoir, Why I Wore Lipstick: To My Mastectomy, and her powerful keynote speeches.
Nancy Goodman Brinker
Ambassador Nancy G. Brinker is regarded as the leader of the global breast cancer movement. Her journey began with a simple promise to her dying sister, Susan G. Komen that she would do everything possible to end the shame, pain, fear and hopelessness caused by this disease. In one generation, the organization that bears ...
Suzie Humphreys
With her unstoppable can-do spirit, no-nonsense wit and infectious laugh, Humphreys lifts, jolts, nurtures and stretches her audiences–and they love every minute of it! Humphreys has gone from administrative secretary to television talk show host, to 20 years in radio. Taking her message from corporations to conventions ...
Vivian Stringer
The master builder of basketball programs, Rutgers head coach and Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Vivian Stringer has catapulted three different college basketball programs from obscurity to national prominence during her 35 years as a head coach. A pioneer, visionary, and innovator during her three decades on ...
Shelley Morrison
Shelley Morrison has had a remarkable and fascinating career in show business for the past four decades from appearing as "Sister Sixto" in The Flying Nun, to co-starring on one of television's most acclaimed situation comedies as "Rosario," the feisty, wisecracking maid on NBC's hit comedy Will and Grace.
Don Shula
Hall of Famer, Shula is considered by many to be the greatest coach ever to step on a playing field. Co-author of Everyone's a Coach, he helps audiences learn his extremely effective philosophies on success, teamwork, and achievement.
Emory Austin
Austin's themes of leadership development, customer retention, increasing market share and the transformation of change into vision resonate with audiences for years to come. Most recently, Austin has been honored with the Council of Peers Award for Excellence, as well as being inducted to the Speaker Hall of Fame.
Linda Ellerbee
In the eighteen years since her diagnosis, Ellerbee has been appearing before sell-out audiences all over the country to tell her story about living with breast cancer. An outspoken journalist, award-winning television producer, and best-selling author, she is a woman of spirit and determination who has enlightened and ...
Roger and Kathy Cawthon
Roger Cawthon was a television sportscaster for CNN. Kathy Cawthon is a freelance writer and photographer. The couple was diagnosed with cancer within six weeks of each other. After rigorous cancer treatment, the two founded the Cancer Crusade, an organization dedicated to fighting cancer with hope and humor.
James Denton
Currently starring in the Golden Globe Award winning Desperate Housewives, Nashville native James Denton is widely recognized for his role as hunky plumber “Mike Delfino” on the fictional Wisteria Lane. Denton, who originally attended college on a basketball scholarship, wasn’t bitten by the acting bug until ...
Marcia Wallace
Prior to her Emmy award-winning role as the voice of "Bart's" teacher on The Simpsons, Wallace was best known as "Carol Kester" on The Bob Newhart Show. A cancer survivor, she shares her story with warmth and wit.
Marcia Strassman
Best known for her role as Julie Kotter in the iconic 1970s TV series Welcome Back Kotter and as the eponymous "Honey" in the Honey I Shrunk the Kids movies, Marcia Strassman is a self described "Cancer Warrior," willing to take on anything to win her battle, and take as many women along with her as she ...
Olivia Newton John
Olivia Newton-John has enjoyed many successes in her career. With three Grammys, numerous American Music and People's Choice Awards, five #1 hits, and 15 top ten singles to her credit, she also starred opposite JohnTravolta in one of the most successful movie musicals of all time, Grease.
Hoda Kotb
Hoda Kotb was named co-anchor of the fourth hour of The Today Show in August 2007. She has also been a Dateline NBC correspondent since April 1998 and the host of the weekly syndicated series Your Total Health since September 2004.
Printer-friendly version
Send to friend