Tricia Hernandez, MS is a survivor, advocate, mom, and adventurer, preferring she/her pronouns. Her career has been spent in leadership in nonprofit organizations. After earning a Master of Science degree in Clinical Psychology from Georgia Southern University, she worked for the State of Georgia with a focus on psychological testing of children with severe emotional/behavioral differences. She went on to lead the foster care program, then served as Director of Operations for a small Atlanta community based mental health advocacy organization. Tricia’s operational knowledge supported roles as operations manager at a national mental health organization and co-executive director of her own nonprofit foster care agency. Following some time at home with her son, Tricia returned to nonprofit operations, advocacy, community outreach, and program delivery at The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. She spent six years as the Patient & Community Outreach Manager for the Georgia Chapter and now serves as the Director of Community Engagement in LLS Education, Services and Outcomes Research, where she manages the LLS online patient community, represents LLS on national collaboratives and leads AYA services and resources efforts. Tricia was named SWOG Lymphoma Committee Patient Research Advocate in 2022, NCI Lymphoma Committee Patient Advocate in 2023, and is a member of the Comprehensive Cancer Control National Partnership. She is a twenty-two year Hodgkin lymphoma survivor and lives in Atlanta with her wife, son, and pups.