Head and Neck Cancer Alliance Ambassador Program

People draw more strength and knowledge from hearing directly from patients and caregivers.

At the Head and Neck Cancer Alliance (HNCA), we strive to empower patients and survivors to share their journeys by understanding their disease, managing their treatment plan, celebrating their milestones and moving forward.

The HNCA Ambassadors are dedicated to educating the community-at-large about these cancers. Our ambassadors are cancer patients, survivors and/or caregivers whose inspirational journeys give true meaning to what happens when you are diagnosed with cancer, during and post-treatment.

If your organization is hosting an event, conducting research on patient journeys or designing clinical protocols, contact HNCA by filling the online request form to identify one or more ambassadors.

Empower and Educate others

Volunteer and become an ambassador

About You

If you are a head and neck cancer patient, survivor or caregiver and would like to share your story with others to encourage early detection, promote research or advocate, please inquire about joining the HNCA Ambassadors. We are looking for people who are comfortable speaking in front of large and small audiences, are happy to share their journeys with the community and/or providing feedback on research projects.

What is Involved?

Being a HNCA Ambassador is a voluntary role. A full list of HNCA Ambassador Criteria is available here.

Once approved as a HNCA Ambassador, you will be contacted to share your journey at community events, with researchers, and/or at fundraising functions. All Ambassadors will work with the HNCA Vice President of Programs to optimize their presentations with the goal of educating others about head and neck cancer.

Your Impact

By sharing their own personal experiences, representatives inspire the public with their heartwarming and real accounts of their cancer journey. A human face and first-hand experience can be powerful tools to move audiences, helping them to understand and to recognize the role of research, encouraging them to take action, and most importantly, instilling hope for finding the cure.

How to Take Part

Please share the below details with us by filling the online form. Your 6-10 paragraph personal journey and photo may appear on the HNCA website and in other material.

  • Your Full Name
  • 6-10 paragraphs of your personal journey (details of family life, age of diagnosis, type of cancer, treatment, years as a cancer survivor and other pertinent details of your cancer journey.
  • Photo – a headshot of yourself and other photos/images that convey your personal cancer journey.
  • Full contact information: full name, title, affiliation, mailing address, phone number and email address.

How to schedule an ambassador for your event

In coordination with our HNCA Chapters, we will work with respective requestors to provide an individual who can offer his/her inspirational story with the insights, challenges, and an overall personal cancer journey narrative.

If you are looking to schedule an ambassador for an upcoming event, we ask that you provide us with at least a month’s lead time to schedule an ambassador for your event. Depending on the location of the event, please know that travel expenses are the responsibility of the requesting company/organization.

You can review the profiles of our current Ambassadors here. To request a HNCA Ambassador please fill out our online request form.

Submission Details Needed:

  • Event Description
  • Event date/time
  • Description of audience
  • Approximate amount of time for the presentation
  • Additional activities request of the cancer survivor, i.e. interview request for publication, etc.
  • Contact information of individual(s) requesting the cancer survivor – full name, title, affiliation, mailing address, phone number and email address.

Thank you to our Ambassador Program Sponsors!
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