Ysabel duron biography template

Ysabel Duron is a pioneering, award-winning Latina journalist, a cancer survivor, and for the last 23 years, a leading patient activist around Latino community engagement.

Her encore career as a cancer patient advocate and non-profit agency builder commenced when she was diagnosed with cancer in

This past February President Joe Biden appointed Duron to the National Cancer Advisory Board which advises the Director of the National Cancer Institute.

Duron describes her “work in and with community,” as a learning classroom and credits the experience with preparing her for her advocacy role.

Among other things, her former agency developed programs for low income, Spanish-speaking and immigrant communities to address gaps along the cancer continuum including cancer awareness education, navigation into screening, psychosocial support groups and a lay community navigator program to support and guide low income, Spanish-speaking cancer patients in the public health care canc