Powerful members of our local community who have stepped up as Ambassadors to raise awareness and funds for local cancer care.
Meet Tina 2023 AMBASSADOR Diagnosed in January 2016 Tina Roy Tina has been asked many times if she was ready to share her story. With a public career, she was apprehensive about opening up. She did not want her clients to lose confidence in her, or feel as though they’d be bothering her. She declined…
Grow On Windsor Ambassador Robert Franz I am a 2022 Grow On Windsor Ambassador because continuing to share my story will help others feel less alone with their diagnosis. I can’t tell you the amount of people who have come up to me saying ‘I’m a survivor too’. I want to keep an open dialogue…
Grow On Windsor Ambassador Adrian Vido I am a 2022 Grow On Windsor Ambassador because I want to help those who help others in our community with cancer. They are our heroes and I want to arm them with all the right resources to fight this disease right here in our community. – Adrian Vido…
Grow On Windsor Ambassador Brandon Smith I am a 2022 Grow On Windsor Ambassador because I want to help our cancer community in any way I can. I am waiting for the next breakthrough to extend my life expectancy, and we can’t get that breakthrough without funding, research, and support, which is what this campaign…
Grow On Windsor Ambassador Gary Arora I am a 2022 Grow On Windsor Ambassador because there are many people that live in Windsor-Essex that are far from home – far away from their families just like I am. I want to raise awareness and funds to help the Windsor Cancer Centre Foundation help more people…
Grow On Windsor Ambassador Jermaine Jackson I am a Grow On Windsor Ambassador because, as a father, teacher, and coach, I was always showing others how to fight and never quit. Lessons I’ve taught others have prepared me for this fight, and fighting cancer is the ultimate fight. – Jermaine Jackson Jermaine is a father…
Ashley is a mom, a wife, and a native Windsorite, with a deep passion for helping others. Over the past six years she has been involved with several local initiatives including the Windsor Corporate Challenge, the Fight Like Mason Foundation, Rock Your Sole Charity Fundraiser and the RMHC Red Shoe Society. Professionally, Ashley is the Director of…
If you’ve had the opportunity to meet Karma, you’re immediately drawn to her zest for life and her love for those around her. Family and close friends are vitally important to her. She feels that life is about creating those special moments with the ones you love in hopes that those moments become lifelong memories….
Stephanie is a 38 year old who shares a lively home full of love in Belle River with her stepson and her husband, and their two boys. Stephanie comes from a large family of aunts, uncles, and cousins, and grew up in Leamington with her parents, older sister, and younger brother. Of her sons, Stephanie…
Brooke Spitse is no stranger to the Windsor Regional Cancer Centre or the Windsor Cancer Centre Foundation. She’s a past employee of both. Brooke is a bright and cheerful 30 year old, a wife, and of course a new mom. “Last year, I was raising funds for (local) breast reconstruction equipment and this year I…
