Gamechangers: Leanne Pero
Leanne Pero, founder of Black Women Rising, joins Lauren, Deborah and Steve to catch up after originally recording with us before lockdown in March.
Before lockdown, we'd started to record a new series speaking to gamechangers in the cancer community. Our first recording was with Leanne Pero and Charlotte Crowl, but due to Covid-19 everything was put on hold.
In this episode we catch up with Leanne. You'll hear the original recording from back in early March, alongside her thoughts of what's happened and changed since.
Leanne and Charlotte do a new podcast called 'Black Women Rising: The Untold Cancer Stories' where you can find out more about their amazing work - it's available in all the usual podcast places.
We aim to return to the cancer gamechangers series in the next few episodes, so if there's someone making a difference in your cancer community please tell us all about them by using #youmebigc across all forms of social media.
This episode is dedicated to our dear friend (and previous guest on the pod) Saima Thompson.
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