Introducing The Cancer Nation Leadership Academy
Elevating Survivorship is now the Cancer Nation Leadership Academy.
We’re changing the name — and expanding the mission.
This is more than just a new name; It’s how we drive change.
For years, Elevating Survivorship brought advocates together to turn lived experience into community-based action. We trained and mentored Elevate Ambassadors and supported their community projects.
What we knew to be true was confirmed again and again:
The health care system won’t change unless all of us — survivors, caregivers, and health care professionals — come together to demand something better.
That’s why the Cancer Nation Leadership Academy needs to exist. We’re building a network of leaders across communities and care settings who are ready to fix what’s broken.
Cancer Nation Ambassadors will drive change through:
- Cross-community leadership
Survivors, caregivers, and health care professionals learning and leading side-by-side. - Collective action
Not just ideas, but the tools to change care in clinics, communities, and policy. - Real transformation
Confidence, connection, and shared power to lead change.
What’s New?
The Cancer Nation Leadership Academy builds on everything we learned from Elevating Survivorship and expands it into something bigger.
The Leadership Academy:
- Trains leaders in advocacy and systems change.
- Builds a shared language between lived experience and clinical care.
- Equips our community to push for better policy and better care.
- Launches projects that move us closer to a Cure for Care.
This is where Cancer Nation Ambassadors become catalysts for change to reshape care.
The 2025 class of Cancer Nation Ambassadors and staff at an in-person training.
Interested in becoming a Cancer Nation Ambassador?
We’re opening the doors to the next generation of leaders — survivors, caregivers, and health care professionals ready to turn lived experience into action — because this is how we get closer to a Cure for Care.
We’ll soon open 2026 Cancer Nation Leadership Academy applications. Subscribe to Cancer Nation updates to be the first to hear about it.
Learn more about the Leadership Academy and see how Cancer Nation Ambassadors are making a difference in their communities.
Cancer Nation Leadership AcademyWe are Cancer Nation. And we are here to be heard.
