The Cofounders Inspiration & Origin Story
I read a bit of Victoria’s story and was absolutely shocked, I had never heard anything like it, still haven’t.
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Reading other wild stories on social media, I found truth was really stranger than fiction in our nuclear community. I’d heard that President Obama had an outreach of reading and answering a few emails or letters a month. I decided, why not me?
I wrote the White House various emails every week on behalf of 3 people I didn’t know, a few months in I had a shock. I’d began helping strangers on Facebook in 2015, after attempts to help my father’s radiation exposure claim after he’d lost half a lung, yet still wasn’t qualifying under RECA. |
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My first thought was OMG, I don’t know this person. I had picked their story off Facebook, I’m going to sound like an insane stalker! What I didn’t realize was I had not only chosen a stranger on Facebook, but Victoria was a well-established fine artist in complex cancer treatments laying in a hospital bed at Stanford Medical Center. |
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It was the beginning of our synergetic friendship, a God moment if you will.
We have had many of those since. |
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Raison d'être
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Global social media platforms have revealed how far reaching the need is to assess and mitigate the health impacts ionizing Radiation exposure has, regardless of its source.
Generations of descendants in nuclear weapons testing nations, past and present, hold clues to unlock some of the evidence researchers can now access in their genes. Time is running out. We are losing some of the conscripted generations at a rapid rate. Independent global research and private sector solutions can help us achieve actionable results more quickly. Self-care requires us to explore new options, improve outcomes and facilitate our own ability to prevent birth defects while we try to mitigate the multigenerational human catastrophe continuing now. |
