Introducing Hello Summer! – an art installation created by 3rd, 4th and 5th graders from PS 154 The Windsor Terrace School in Brooklyn, NY. With direction from their wonderful Art Teacher, Ms. Giamboi, the students have created pieces inspired by the works of Georgia O’Keefe. This installation is currently hanging in our T.E.A.L.® Community Center windows for all to enjoy through August 15, 2021. Our Community Connection Campaign windows spreads awareness and educates about the signs and symptoms of ovarian cancer. Please visit TellEveryAmazingLady.org/window to view PS 154’s students art work and read more about our Community Connection Campaign.
Pamela Esposito-Amery, CEO and co-founder of Tell Every Amazing Lady®, was a speaker at the virtual Sigma Alpha Omega Convention 2021: Rooted & Established in Love on June 5th, 2021. The Sigma Alpha Omega organization is a national Christian sorority with 36 chapters nationwide whose chosen philanthropic endeavor is ovarian cancer. Pamela was able to share the signs and symptoms of ovarian cancer with a multitude of young women and speak about the foundation’s work.
The convention also sold raffle tickets to attendees and donated the proceeds to T.E.A.L.®.
On May 27-28, 2021 the Kendra Scott in Hilldale, Wisconsin partnered with T.E.A.L.® Youth Ambassador and Miss South Central Sarah to raise funds for T.E.A.L.®. In-store shoppers had to mention T.E.A.L.® while making their purchases and those shopping online used a promo code. Either instance automatically donated 20% of the purchase toward Tell Every Amazing Lady®!
The National T.E.A.L.® Walk/Run/Ride Hosted by Tell Every Amazing Lady®
Choose Your Own Experience – From Anywhere
September 1st, 2021 through September 30th, 2021
All participants will receive customized bib, raffle entry, and virtual goodie bag
Every Registration comes with a discount for a T.E.A.L.® Event next year
Register by July 15th, 2021 for special early bird pricing discounts!
This year only we are welcoming cyclists to our virtual event!
Show your support for National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month this September by joining us for our first virtual month-long national event.
The COVID-19 Pandemic has created projections of increased late stage cancer numbers. We are all coming together to fight ovarian cancer including underserved communities by spreading awareness, raising funds for urgent and critical research, and celebrating the courage of ovarian cancer survivors and their families.
Still want to see your team in person?
Live in the NYC area? RSVP to meet at our T.E.A.L.® Community Center (down the street from Prospect Park) for a custom start or finish line and other fun giveaways, then go for a walk on your own. Or, choose your own location to take a team photo and share it with us!
Free Fundraising
Start a free fundraising page for the virtual National T.E.A.L.® Walk/Run/Ride! (You can do this without registering for the event). Our fundraising has been deeply impacted by the COVID-19 Pandemic and any fundraising help is very appreciated.
For T.E.A.L.®’s Virtual Mother’s Day Walk/Run on World Ovarian Cancer Day on May 8, 2021, T.E.A.L.® offered access to its in-person selfie window art installation in Park Slope/Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn. Those who made advanced appointments could take photos at our window to help spread awareness on social media, and registered participants for the Walk/Run could receive a free prize. Supporters could also email a selfie to T.E.A.L.® to post in the windows and on the website so all can be part of this community event. Additional visits to the T.E.A.L.® Community Center’s windows were made on May 1, May 6, May 7, and May 15, 2021.
Tell Every Amazing Lady® is hosting T.E.A.L.®’s Virtual Mother’s Day Run on World Ovarian Cancer Day, this May 8th, 2021! We’re hosting our second World Ovarian Cancer Day event to help raise awareness about the signs and symptoms of ovarian cancer while bringing the community together virtually. This year features a Hybrid Window Art Installation either in-person at the T.E.A.L.® Community Center or virtually by email. Register to walk or run 2 miles and get exclusive Interactive Selfie Access to the window at www.TellEveryAmazingLady.org/may.
T.E.A.L.® volunteers Patsy and Carolyn donated their time, supplies, and creativity on April 18, 2021 to create a beautiful window display for the T.E.A.L.® Community Center. The windows were accented with teal lace, ribbons, and butterflies to highlight the spring season. (Notice the budding tree in the photo!) We are so grateful for their artistic touch at our center!
T.E.A.L.® CEO and co-founder Pamela Esposito-Amery was one of the guest speakers at Weill Cornell Medicine’s event “Our Wakanda: Colorectal Cancer in Younger Adults” on March 23, 2021. March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, and a risk factor for developing ovarian cancer can be tied to a family history of colon cancer. Pamela spoke of her personal connection to both diseases as well as T.E.A.L.®’s work in the New York City community.
T.E.A.L.® had a virtual booth at the Society of Gynecologic Oncology’s Virtual Annual Meeting, which took place from March 22nd to March 25th, 2021. T.E.A.L.® had a virtual presence throughout the entire conference and raised awareness about the foundation and the important work it does to attendees.
T.E.A.L.® intern Tiombe Jones created an outreach event for her community of peers to help educate and spread awareness of the work the foundation does. She presented alongside T.E.A.L.® staff on March 20th, 2021.
T.E.A.L.® Legacy Board member Phyllis Bellocchio hosted an online International Women’s Day outreach event on March 8th, 2021. Phyllis was joined by T.E.A.L.® co-founder and CEO Pamela Esposito-Amery as they spoke to attendees about being aware of the signs and symptoms of ovarian cancer.
Tell Every Amazing Lady® participated in an online career fair hosted by St. Francis College in Brooklyn on April 8, 2021. At the event, T.E.A.L.® had a digital presence and interacted with students live to raise awareness about the foundation’s work, plus internship, job, and volunteer opportunities available.
T.E.A.L.® was featured at the virtual Lions District 20-K1 Mid-Winter Convention on February 21st, 2021. T.E.A.L.® spread awareness about ovarian cancer and the work the foundation does to the attendees of the virtual Mid-Winter Convention.
T.E.A.L.® presented at New York Presbyterian’s virtual quarterly meeting on February 3rd, 2021. The Foundation’s CEO and co-founder Pamela Esposito-Amery is now a member of the Community Advisory Board at Weill Cornell Medicine-Meyer Cancer Center, and presented her story and the work of the foundation to fellow members.
T.E.A.L.® board member Patsy Gentile hosted an online outreach event for the Staten Island community on January 27th, 2021. Patsy and foundation CEO and co-founder Pamela Esposito-Amery educated participants about T.E.A.L.®’s work and the signs and symptoms of ovarian cancer.
T.E.A.L.® collaborated with staff members at Forbes to create a virtual lunchtime educational event on January 27th, 2021. They educated attendees about the signs and symptoms of ovarian cancer, as well as determining your risk of the disease.
T.E.A.L.® CEO and co-founder Pamela Esposito-Amery and staff member Carla Menezes attended the virtual BBB Accredited Business Networking Event on January 27th, 2021. They were able to educate local community members and business leaders about Tell Every Amazing Lady® and its women’s health programs.
T.E.A.L.® CEO and co-founder Pamela Esposito-Amery attended the virtual Jumpstart Virtual Event Networking Event Job Fair on January 26th, 2021. At the event, we were able to connect with participants to raise awareness about the foundation’s work, plus internship, job, and volunteer opportunities available.
Tell Every Amazing Lady® hosted a free online Educational Webinar for the Staten Island community on January 12th, 2021 to raise awareness about T.E.A.L.® and its programs, family genetics and genetic risk, plus the T.E.A.L.® Youth Ambassador Program.
Tell Every Amazing Lady® has funded research at some of the country’s most prestigious hospitals and institutions. For 2020, we are proud to announce partial funding of the study “Methylomic Landscapes of Ovarian Cancer Precursor Lesions,” led by Professor Tian-Li Wang at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
The goal of the research is to find chemical changes that occur in the DNA of fallopian tube cells of healthy women who are at increased risk of developing ovarian cancer. These changes can dramatically alter how cells act and divide, and may contribute to the development of small precursor lesions, called STICs, that can later become aggressive cancers.
Many women who have not been diagnosed with cancer may already have STIC lesions in their fallopian tubes, especially if they are at increased risk of developing ovarian cancer due to hereditary genetic mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2. Studies have also indicated that it takes approximately six to seven years for these STICs to progress into invasive ovarian cancer.
Their new technology seeks to detect these markers in a cervical Pap smear (called “PapDREAM” assay) in a highly sensitive and specific way, so they can conduct a future clinical trial to determine the performance of the assay for early detection of ovarian cancer in high-risk women.
Partial funding of this grant was made possible by donations to the Jane Fund.
Tell Every Amazing Lady® participated in Dime Community Bank’s Dime Gives Back social media campaign from November to December 1st, 2020. T.E.A.L.® urged supporters to take photos of themselves saying what they were thankful for and tag T.E.A.L.® and #DimeGivesBack. Dime Bank tallied up how many posts mentioned Tell Every Amazing Lady®, and donated $1,000 to the foundation.
The Ruthless Comedy Hour hosted a virtual comedy hour on Nov. 20, 2020, with all proceeds from the Tip Jar going to T.E.A.L.®. The event featured special guests Susie Essman (“Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Broad City,” HBO) and Buddy Fitzpatrick (Comedy Central, Nick, Apple TV) and plenty of laughs, and raised $570 for T.E.A.L.®.
Tell Every Amazing Lady® CEO and co-founder Pamela Esposito-Amery was invited to speak to members of the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority at NYU virtually on Nov. 6, 2020. She reached about 45 young women from the Manhattan college with important awareness of the signs and symptoms of ovarian cancer and the work that T.E.A.L.® does.
After her mother lost her battle to ovarian cancer in December of 2019, Emilee wanted to do something. Like many other women her mother had not known the signs and symptoms of ovarian cancer which led to her mother’s cancer being more advanced. Emilee had also lost her father about a week after her mother but still had a huge group of friends and family ready to help her. She organized a socially distanced walk on her parents anniversary on September 26, in honor of her mother. As a group, Team Marshall raised $1,100 in honor of Bernice Marshall.
Tell Every Amazing Lady® CEO and co-founder Pamela Esposito-Amery raised awareness about the signs and symptoms of ovarian cancer for employees at Russell Investment during the company’s webinar on Oct. 29, 2020. The PowerPoint presentation and Q/A informed 780 members about the disease.
T.E.A.L.® hosted a virtual Wellness Weekend for community members on October 24th, 2020. The day was filled with moderators and presenters from different sectors of health and wellness to help T.E.A.L.® supporters make choices toward healthy and fulfilling lives. Presentations on stress-relief, energy healing, and genetic risk education were given during the event.
T.E.A.L.® was a participating professional group in Drew University’s virtual Launch Communities Fair on Oct. 23, 2020. T.E.A.L.® CEO and co-founder Pamela Esposito-Amery spoke to students at the Madison, NJ, college about the various roles at the foundation.
T.E.A.L.® CEO and co-founder Pamela Esposito-Amery met with Scripps College students during the school’s Virtual Health & Science Expo on Oct. 23, 2020. She spoke to the students from the Claremont, CA., school about the many ways to get involved with T.E.A.L.®.
T.E.A.L.® CEO and co-founder Pamela Esposito-Amery presented to attendees at the virtual Young BK Professionals Cross-Industry Networking Event on Oct. 8, 2020. During the speed networking event, she spoke about the various ways to get involved with the foundation and provided educational info about women’s health.
Tell Every Amazing Lady® participated in the virtual BBB Joint Regional Accredited Business Networking Event on September 30th, 2020, getting the chance to spread awareness to and meet other businesses from across New York City, Long Island, and the Mid-Hudson Region.
T.E.A.L.® celebrated the end of National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month by lighting up Manhattan’s City Hall the color teal on September 30th, 2020! This was the fifth year in a row City Hall partnered with T.E.A.L.® to light the building, allowing us to spread important awareness even during a pandemic.
Tell Every Amazing Lady® endorsed a new bill from Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez seeking to increase awareness of ovarian cancer among health professionals and women.
The bill H.R. 8442, entitled the Ovarian and Cervical Cancer Awareness Act of 2020, was introduced on September 29th, during National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. It intends to address two of the deadliest reproductive cancers women face and prioritize underserved women in our national gynecological health public awareness campaign.
Note: The bill hasn’t yet passed, it was introduced to Congress
T.E.A.L.® hosted the 7th Annual Savannah T.E.A.L.® Walk/Run virtually on September 26, 2020. The event was very different but still a success, generating lots of awareness for ovarian cancer. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, T.E.A.L.®’s usual in-person event at Lake Mayer Track moved to a virtual platform for the safety of participants. For the first time, the annual event featured a 5K run option for participants. There was also an exclusive kick off video for participants to feel connected together that included T.E.A.L.® volunteers, staff, board members, team members, and celebrities.
A big thanks to Punk Rope, a jump rope-based fitness class, which donated $400 from its Punk Rope Games on September 26th, 2020, to Tell Every Amazing Lady®.
Punk Rope founder Tim ran in the virtual 12th Annual Brooklyn T.E.A.L.® Walk/Run on September 12th, 2020, with Team MaryMo and decided to keep up the fundraising.
Participants in the annual event dressed in costume to compete in a variety of jump rope events in Manhattan. Each year, the gym donates 100% of the proceeds from the competition to a charity.
Kendra Scott held another online fundraiser for Tell Every Amazing Lady® on September 22nd and 23rd, 2020 in honor of National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. Online shoppers could use a code at checkout on the site, and the NYC Soho store would donate 20% of all proceeds to T.E.A.L.®. This was a two-day online shopping event. Earlier in the year, Kendra Scott also donated beautiful teal colored jewelry to our Amazing Lady Membership Program for ovarian cancer survivors in the program.
T.E.A.L.® was invited to spread awareness about ovarian cancer to the staff at Liberty Mutual on September 23rd, 2020. The presentation to Liberty Mutual’s WE@Liberty, the Women’s Employee Resource Group, was part of the company’s self-care webinar series.
T.E.A.L.® held the 7th Annual Litchfield T.E.A.L.® Walk virtually on September 19, 2020. Survivors, their family members and friends, and many other members of the public were able to participate in the virtual walk to raise awareness for ovarian cancer. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, T.E.A.L.®’s usual in-person event at Litchfield Community Field moved to a virtual platform for the safety of participants. T.E.A.L.® volunteers, staff, board members, team captains, and celebrities filmed a kick-off video to give participants a chance to feel connected together that day.
Thanks to T.E.A.L.® volunteer Kelsey, who hosted an online raffle fundraiser for the foundation. Kelsey, a member of Kappa Psi-Delta Omega Fraternity and National Community Oncology Dispensing Association, a professional pharmacy fraternity at South University in Savannah, Georgia, raised $305 through the online event in September, 2020, donating 100% of the profit to T.E.A.L.®.
T.E.A.L.® thanks our media sponsor WABC Channel 7 Eyewitness News for covering the virtual 12th Annual Brooklyn T.E.A.L.® Walk/Run on September 12th, 2020. Check out the video of the event here.
T.E.A.L.® held the 12th Annual Brooklyn T.E.A.L.® Walk/Run virtually on September 12th, 2020. Survivors, their family members and friends, and many others were able to participate in the virtual walk or run to raise awareness for ovarian cancer from anywhere in the country. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, T.E.A.L.®’s usual in-person event in Prospect Park moved to a virtual platform for the safety of participants. T.E.A.L.® volunteers, staff, board members, and celebrities filmed a video to give participants a chance to feel connected and virtually kick off the event together online.
T.E.A.L.® thanks Savannah’s WTOC for promoting our virtual 7th Annual Savannah T.E.A.L.® Walk/Run by airing an interview with volunteer Vanessa Courtlandt on September 11th, 2020. Vanessa shared her story and helped to bring awareness to ovarian cancer ahead of the event on September 26th. The interview can be found here: https://www.wtoc.com/2020/09/11/teal-walkrun-goes-virtual/
T.E.A.L.® wants to give a big thank you to our friends at One Tough B for featuring us in their September 10th, 2020, podcast episode. This episode features our co-founder Pamela, and discusses the journey to founding and starting T.E.A.L.®. Listen to the episode here.
T.E.A.L.® lit up Brooklyn Borough Hall in Downtown Brooklyn the color teal from September 7th through 13th, 2020, to continue its kickoff of National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. It was the foundation’s seventh year working with Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, who has supported T.E.A.L.® in every year of his administration.
T.E.A.L.® thanks the Brooklyn Paper for helping raise awareness about ovarian cancer and National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month by featuring coverage of T.E.A.L.®’s September Awareness Campaign on its website and in print on September 4th, 2020. The paper featured T.E.A.L.® staff and volunteers as they tied ribbons along North Flatbush, Fifth, and Myrtle Avenues in Brooklyn. The story also mentioned the lighting of Brooklyn Borough Hall from September 7th to 13th to further promote the foundation’s work. Read the story here.
T.E.A.L.® wants to thank NY1 for helping raise awareness of ovarian cancer and National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month by airing a feature on September 3rd, 2020 about the foundation’s annual ribbon tying awareness event in Brooklyn on North Flatbush Avenue, Park Slope’s Fifth Avenue, and Myrtle Avenue. If you’d like to see the NY1 video, you can find it here.
Tell Every Amazing Lady® continued its September Ovarian Cancer Awareness Campaign on September 2nd, 2020, by tying ribbons across Brooklyn. Foundation staff and volunteers were joined by members of the North Flatbush BID, Park Slope Fifth Avenue BID, and Myrtle Avenue BID to tie teal-colored ribbons from national organization Turn the Towns Teal® along their respective avenues to raise awareness about the disease and remind community members of the virtual 12th Annual Brooklyn T.E.A.L.® Walk/Run.
Tell Every Amazing Lady® thanks K-Love, a contemporary Christian music radio programming service, for partnering with the foundation to raise awareness about ovarian cancer.
When T.E.A.L.® posted information about the 12th Annual Brooklyn T.E.A.L.® Walk/Run on the station’s online community calendar, K-Love reached out to help further advertise the event and raise awareness about the foundation and ovarian cancer. K-Love aired a PSA from T.E.A.L.® from August 31st to September 12th 2020, and posted an awareness piece about T.E.A.L.® on its @KLoveNewYork Instagram on September 4th, 2020.
T.E.A.L.® lit the Coney Island Luna Park Parachute Jump the color teal from August 29th to September 2nd, 2020, to commemorate the start of September’s National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. The foundation’s 6th annual lighting in Coney Island, Brooklyn, helped make residents throughout New York City aware of ovarian cancer. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, T.E.A.L.® was unable to also host its annual press conference at the lighting, or walk on the field at a Brooklyn Cyclones game at MCU Park.
Thank you to WABC Channel 7 Eyewitness News and reporter and survivor Stacey Sager for promoting the virtual 12th Annual Brooklyn T.E.A.L.® Walk/Run by filming and airing a promo on August 13th, 2020. This will be yet another year the news channel has served as a media sponsor for the event. You can check out the promo here.
Meet Kayla, the T.E.A.L.®- nominated Volunteer
of the Month for August!
After her grandmother lost her battle with
ovarian cancer in 2016, Kayla was motivated to educate other women about the
condition. She had heard about the work that T.E.A.L.® does, and was intrigued
by the idea of volunteering in her community. In the fall of 2019, she reached
out to T.E.A.L.® to see if she could help spread the word about ovarian cancer.
Kayla sees her volunteer efforts as fulfilling
and valuable to the community. She notes that her work with T.E.A.L.® has been
a great way to “extend my hand, give my time where I can, and make a difference.”
While her grandmother is no longer with her, Kayla likes to think that she is
volunteering in her honor. “If she [were] alive today, I’m sure she’d be doing
it with me.”
