Breast Cancer Speakers

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 witnessing ...

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.

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 t ...

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 ente ...

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 ag ...

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". Cancer survivor who shares her story with warmth and wit.

Betty Rollin

The author of seven books, including First, You Cry, a moving story - the first of its kind - about her breast cancer and mastectomy, and the upcoming, Here's the Bright Side (of Failure, Fear, Cancer, Divorce and Other Bum Raps), she is a journalist who shares her journey with poignancy and truth.

Karen Neuburger

With energy, a sense of fun that is infectious, and a stance that embraces her own comfort inspired lifestyle, Karen Neuburger has discovered just how powerful and comforting women’s friendships can be. Her lifelong quest for comfort led her to shed the corporate dress code of her fashion career, shred her pantyhose, tos ...

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 ...

Kate Jackson

Forever known as one of Charlie’s Angels, she has built a career out of consistently bringing a combination of beauty, brains, and talent to her roles. After undergoing open heart surgery to fix a life threatening defect she never knew she had, she is now on a mission to empower, educate, and inspire by speaking o ...

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. He ...

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.