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Judy Pearson Founder of a 2nd Act Judy Pearson is an award-winning writer and the founder of A 2nd Act. The organization supports and celebrates women survivors of all cancers who are using their gifts of life and experience to give back to the greater good. Judy is a graduate of Michigan State University and an award-winning writer, with two decades worth of newspaper, magazine and online articles to her credit, along with three books. The first two delved into World War II, but a diagnosis of Triple Negative Breast Cancer caused Judy to depart from biographies to write her third book: It’s Just Hair: 20 Essential Life Lessons. It was selected as a 2012 International Book Award finalist. Her current foray into writing takes on another war. From Shadows to Life is the story of President Nixon’s War on Cancer, its ensuing survivorship movement, and the courageous men and women who brought cancer survivors out of the shadows. Each played a part in founding the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship. An accomplished presenter and speaker, Judy is the founder of A 2nd Act, an organization that supports and celebrates women survivors of all cancers who are using their gifts of life and experience to give back to the greater good. The organization raises funds through live storytelling performances, publishes a book (an ever growing collection of the stories told on their stages), conducts workshops helping guide women survivors discover their 2nd Acts, and makes micro grants to survivors ready to launch or grow their 2nd Acts. In 2012, Judy was honored in Washington D.C. by the American Association of Cancer Research and featured in their National Cancer Research Progress Report. She is a member of the Society of Integrative Oncology, a member of the American Psychosocial Oncology Society, a founding board member of Arizona Women for the Arts, a member of the American Association for University Women, a member of both Women of Central Phoenix and Women of Scottsdale, and a past board member of the Michigan State University Alumni Association. In 2015, Judy was named one of Chicago’s Most Inspirational Women, was selected as a finalist for the 2018 Arizona Healthcare Leadership Awards and named a Phoenix Healthcare Hero the same year. Judy and her husband, David, live at the base of the Phoenix Mountain Preserve with their chocolate Labrador, Izzy Belle.