Learn About Courage From This Founder Who Is Saving And Changing Lives

When Karen Eubanks Jackson was diagnosed with breast cancer in Los Angeles in 1993, the public story about Black women and breast cancer was that they didn’t care, didn’t show up and waited too long. The women Karen met during treatment told a different story.

She went looking for a national organization she could join, found that none existed, and started one herself. A year later, Sisters Network was a national organization. More than 30 years on, some of its original chapters are still active. In this conversation, Sarah and Karen talk about what it really takes to lead with courage, why Sisters Network pushed for earlier screening long before the guidelines caught up, and how the organization helped move breast cancer out of silence, shame, and stigma and toward advocacy.

Karen shares the lessons she learned from her mother in Newark, New Jersey, what the pandemic taught her organization about pivoting, and why she believes life is what you choose to make it.