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Mon, Feb 18, 2013 -- 10:00 AM
Newlyweds Search for a Bone Marrow Donor
Courtesy Kevin Weston, Lateefah Simon
Lateefah Simon and Kevin Weston
Last year, Kevin Weston was riding high. He had just won a journalism fellowship at Stanford, and was raising two daughters with his partner Lateefah Simon, a civil rights activist and MacArthur Genius fellow. Then doctors told him he had leukemia, and needed to find a bone marrow donor by the end of the month. But Kevin is African-American -- and African-Americans comprise only 7 percent of registered donors. Kevin and Lateefah join us to share their story. We'll also discuss the low rate of minority donor participation and the long road to a successful transplant.
Host: Michael Krasny
Guests:
- Kevin Weston, new media journalist and Knight journalism fellow at Stanford University who is seeking a match for a bone marrow transplant
- Lateefah Simon, wife of Kevin Weston, local civil rights activist and winner of a MacArthur "Genius" grant
- Jonathan Leong, founder of the Asian American Donor Program
- Manali Patel, postdoctoral fellow in hematology/oncology at the Stanford School of Medicine and researcher at the Clinical Excellence Research Center, which focuses on innovations in cancer care
More info:
- Kevin and Lateefah's story, and how to help : at KevinAndLateefah.com
- The Help Kevin Weston Facebook group
- Be the Match (National Marrow Donor Program) : at Marrow.org
- About the Asian American Donor Program (AADP.org)
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