In 2009 Katie Murphy ’15 was in a race for her life as she launched into a seven-month treatment to battle stage III Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Today she is a cancer survivor and studying studio art at Chapman University. But now Murphy is in another race.

As a nominee for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Woman of the Year, Murphy is working to raise as much money as possible by May 15 to benefit the society’s mission of blood cancer research. Murphy embraced the fund-raising challenge that comes with the nomination, saying that her heart is truly pegged to the cause behind the contest.

“They fund $78 million a year for blood cancer research. They basically funded the research that cured me,” she says.

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