Mrs. Dorothy J. Reed is the Co-Founder and President Emerita of Sister2Sister, Inc. (S2S) and a breast cancer survivor since 1998. After her mastectomy and treatment, she co-founded S2S to address the lack of culturally sensitive resources for minority women; it was important for her to spread the gospel of early detection for minority women. Mrs. Reed formed the organization in 2000 with three other breast cancer survivors. As a community advocate, she serves as a board member for St. Peter’s Hospital, Cancer Community Public Education, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, Community Relations Committee, the NJ Alliance for Clinical & Translational Science, Community Engagement Core Advisory Committee, and she as the past board chair for Dr. Anita Kinney’s Community Cancer Action Board (CCAB) at the Cancer Institute of NJ. Mrs. Reed’s accomplishments include the “Excellence in Leadership Award” from Rutgers Cancer Health Equity Center of Excellence (CHECoE), for time and dedication to the center’s mission; she is a graduate of the Community Scientist Program sponsored in conjunction with Rutgers Cancer Institute’s CCAB and Community Outreach and Engagement Department. In May 2005, Mrs. Reed was selected to participate on the Department of Defense, Breast Cancer Research Program Committee for the United States Army Medical Research Command. She has received a numerous of honors and awards including an appearance in a 2005 National Television Commercial Campaign by Astra Zeneca known as, “If You Were My Sister” she was also selected as one of Lifetime Hero’s by Lifetime Television in 2006. Nationally, in July 2015, she was selected as a White House Honoree of Precision Medicine “Champions of Change”; she has spent extensive time on Capitol Hill with the National Breast Cancer Coalition. Mrs. Reed holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree, Cum Laude, from Pillar College and is a 40 plus year member of the First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens in Somerset, New Jersey.