I have been shaped by my cancer survivorship since the age of 17. My experience of surviving the challenges engendered by facing life threatening illness, have served to form the foundation for the adult Woman, Mother, and Lawyer I have become and remain faithful to.
As an accomplished, experienced litigator who, after practicing law as both a Criminal Defense attorney in Manhattan, and then a Deputy County Attorney, I returned to Law School to pursue a Masters degree in Family Law (LL.M) degree, while raising my then 8 year old daughter, as a single mom. I feel the fortitude and determination that has helped guide me emanates from the life lessons dealing with multiple cancer diagnosis have given to me. We are so much more than our medical charts reveal.
I share a beautiful home and life with my life partner, David, who will be the first person to say that he has only known me as a survivor, after we met while attending the University of Rochester, where I transferred after being treated for Hodgkin’s lymphoma.