With October being National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I had the opportunity to participate in some of the Nation's breast cancer awareness programs over the past weekend. On Saturday I attended Women Against Real Risk's (WARR) Breast Cancer Awareness Gala at the Washington Courts Hotel on this past Saturday. WARR, is an organization founded by two wonderful women, Totlyn and Claudia, who travel with a staff and volunteers to Jamaica every year to offer women free mammograms. On Saturday, they honored their hardworking staff, volunteers and survivors and fundraised for next year's trip which I can hopefully participate in.
Then on Sunday, some of the 2009 Miss DC USA/ DC Teen USA contestants joined Ivana, Miss DC Teen USA, and me down at the National Mall for the American Cancer Society's Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk. The five mile walk took us around most of the DC monuments and it was an amazing sight to see! Although it was pretty cold that morning, the smiling faces and energy of breast cancer survivors helped to warm us up along the way, and once we reached the finish line, the real party began! We
cha cha slid and cupid shuffled along with hundreds of fellow walkers and even ran into some of my fellow Howard University School of Law students walking for a good cause!
