T-SHIRTS

Everyone who registers and raises or self-donates $50 or more by event day will receive the official PanCAN PurpleStride 2024 T-shirt, available for pick up at your event. We’ll do our best to ensure supply and preferred sizes, but T-shirts are subject to availability. We are unable to ship T-shirts after the event.

All pancreatic cancer survivors who register for PurpleStride are eligible to receive a special survivor T-shirt with no fundraising minimum required.

SPECIAL GUESTS

Chanteé Lans



Chanteé Lans is an Edward R. Murrow award winning journalist. Chanteé is currently the Long Island correspondent for WABC-TV's Eyewitness News. She was previously a contributing writer for the New York Times.

Before returning to New York, Chanteé was an investigative reporter and evening anchor at the ABC affiliate in Shreveport, Louisiana. She was also a general assignment reporter at KYW-TV CBS Philadelphia and at WBZ-TV CBS Boston.

Chanteé has interviewed President Joe Biden. She also covered the Boston marathon bombings, arrest and murder trial of New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez, the sexual assault trial of Bill Cosby, Philadelphia Eagles' first super bowl win, and the imprisonment and release of Rapper Meek Mill which prompted criminal justice reform in Pennsylvania and across the United States.

Chanteé was chosen by the Radio Television Digital News Association to travel to the NATO headquarters and the European Union in Brussels, Belgium as a fellow of the RIAS German/American Exchange Program.

Born in Brooklyn and raised on Long Island, Chanteé earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in broadcast journalism from Temple University. The school honored her with the Lew Klein Alumni in the Media Rising Star award.

She obtained her master's degree in global development and social justice from St. John's University.

Julie Fleshman, JD, MBA



In her 25 years of leadership at PanCAN, Julie Fleshman has been a global catalyst for change in the fight against pancreatic cancer. Her commitment began after she lost her dad to the disease, just four months after his diagnosis. He was 52. Fleshman wanted to know why more wasn’t being done why her dad and thousands of other patients were offered no treatment options and sent home to die.

The pancreatic cancer landscape back then was quite different from today. Very little was known about the disease, only a handful of researchers were studying it and the five-year survival rate was just 4%.

In 1999, Fleshman was hired as PanCAN’s first employee, became its first Executive Director in 2000 and in 2004, became President and CEO. Under her leadership, PanCAN has grown from a staff of one with annual revenues of $228,000 to a staff of over 175 with a budget of more than $58 million.

Chanteé was chosen by the Radio Television Digital News Association to travel to the NATO headquarters and the European Union in Brussels, Belgium as a fellow of the RIAS German/American Exchange Program.

Fleshman encourages convening of leading experts and stakeholders in the field researchers, healthcare professionals, industry and key opinion leaders. This allows her to build a continually expanding community of hundreds of pancreatic cancer thought leaders across the country who work in concert and devote their research efforts to improving patient outcomes.

Madison Marsh



Miss America Madison Marsh, the first active-duty service member to win the coveted crown, is fueled by a personal mission and will bring her powerful story to PurpleStride New York City 2024. Remembering her mother, Whitney, who succumbed to pancreatic cancer in 2018, Marsh will join PurpleStride NYC as a featured speaker.

Dr. Manuel Hidalgo



Dr. Manuel Hidalgo is Chief of the Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology at Weill Cornell Medicine/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and a gastrointestinal (GI) oncologist specializing in the care of patients with pancreatic cancer. Dr. Hidalgo’s research focuses on new drug development and strategies for personalized medicine and immunotherapies for pancreatic cancer. He contributed to the development and Federal Drug Administration (FDA) approval of nab-paclitaxel for pancreatic cancer treatment. Dr. Hidalgo is a member of the PanCAN Precision Promise Steering Committee which aims to design and manage collaborative pancreatic cancer research and clinical trials with the goal of bringing new treatment options to patients.

Nick Kenner



Nick Kenner is the founder and CEO of Just Salad. Since opening the first Just Salad location in 2006, Kenner has built a category leading brand by remaining dedicated to his core principles of delivering affordable, healthy, and highquality options to consumers in environmentally responsible ways. A 2003 Colgate University graduate, Kenner was recognized for his entrepreneurial accomplishments by Inc.’s 30 Under 30 list in 2007. Kenner currently resides in Manhattan with his wife and three kids.

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