Kristen and Michele, both breast cancer survivors, met when Kristen interviewed Michele for the NBC’s Today Show about Michele’s journey to survive stage 4 breast cancer and her quest to save other women from the devastating effects of the disease.

Michele had been diagnosed with de novo breast cancer in 2018 and was told to go through her bucket list. In that moment, she decided to save her life and all others. She researched, traveled to and met with the giants in the field and saw first-hand a revolution taking place that could end breast cancer.

Kristen was inspired by Michele, the doctors and the science. When she decided she was going to leave her career as an award-winning correspondent on NBC, she chose to act on this inspiration and form the Pink Eraser Project with Michele.

Kristen has seen from her career in journalism how even one person can change the world. She, too, realized we are at a unique moment in time when the right collaboration and funding could mean breast cancer vaccines within a decade. She could not let this opportunity pass without doing everything she could to build a future where no one must go through what she went through.

Together, they are leading this historic effort to end breast cancer as we know it.