CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QC Life) - A 19-year-old who lost her mother to cancer was recently named the winner of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) 2024 Charlotte Student Visionaries of the Year campaign.
Maddie Rizzo’s mother, Meghan passed away from Acute Myeloid Leukemia in March 2017, when Maddie was just 12 years old.
She raised more than $240,000 in the seven-week Charlotte Student Visionaries leadership development and fundraising campaign.
LLS’s mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease, and myeloma and improve the quality of life for patients and their families. The organization is working to do that through research, patient education and advocacy.
Since 1949, LLS has invested more than $1.7 billion in blood cancer research.
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