Leo Novsky is an award-winning speaker whose dynamic, humorous, and inspirational approach is sure to fire up any audience. 

Proton therapy is a next-generation radiation treatment that precisely targets tumors, minimizing radiation to healthy tissue and improving the lives of patients with cancer. The Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, in partnership with ProCure, brings this progressive technology to the Pacific NW to support SCCA’s mission to provide the best available treatment for cancer patients. The center is located on the campus of UW Medicine’s Northwest Hospital.  Visit SCCAProtonTherapy.com

Hear from former Proton Therapy patient Pat Purcell as he shares his personal journey from diagnosis, through discovery and proton therapy treatment.  He will discuss the importance of healthy lifestyle, early detection and patient education during this informative thirty-minute presentation. 

All forms of cancer are on the rise and according to the World Health Organization Cancer Program, the number of new cases of cancer is expected to increase from 10 million to 20 million per year over the next twenty years.  If your life has been touched by cancer, you will be moved by this spirited presentation.

 Tafara Pulse is the Sales and Marketing manager for The Alford Group; she is a UW graduate that plays mid-fielder for the Seattle Sounders FC, but she will visit our club to speak about PlayUp and Uganda.

PlayUp offers soccer-based life skills programs, whether it’s tournaments, camps, or 16-week sessions, all based on a curriculum designed to improve quality of life and chances for success throughout life for urban youth. Our programs incorporate team building, learning and leading opportunities, and access to the game of soccer for youth around the world. We ask kids to be intentional about life, plan for the future, and begin to lead those around them toward a vision of what success looks like for them.

PlayUp is currently fundraising to support our tournament efforts in Namuwongo in November 2012. Your donation helps in building self-awareness, increasing social interaction, and creating opportunity for young people around the world. More tangibly, your donation helps to create soccer tournaments; educational sessions on health and water sanitation; and skill building in leadership, accountability, compassion, teamwork, and more. You help create sustainability in our programs, hiring local people to implement locally tailored curricula for local youth in locations around the world. And you help to fund our programs here in the States as well, to ensure that our kids here at home are building the skills they need for a successful future. 

She is based in Nairobi, Kenya but her heart never strays too far from her hometown of Seattle, Washington. She received her BA in Political Science with a minor in Africana Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies from Bryn Mawr College. She speaks Swahili and French.