She wrote, “I wanted to let you know that my beautiful sister Jen passed away on Thursday night. Jen’s sister, Ariel, reached out to CURE® staff with the sad news. In fact, she was a co-moderator for our January 2017 tweet chat, titled “ The Community of Cancer and the Language They Use.” In a blog post before the chat, she said, “I'm so curious to hear what words other cancer patients find to be either taboo or helpful, to learn about other people's approach to communicating about cancer so that I can fine-tune my own, to connect to my newfound community.” Jen also offered a vibrant voice on social media, connecting with others who had cancer. “ Defining Cancer Survivorship” was published in our fall print issue, and for our spring issue, Jen wrote “ Life Redefined: Living Well With Metastatic Cancer,” an article full of advice and resources for people, like her, with metastatic cancer. Some of her most popular recent articles include “ A Life Less Cancery,” a personal essay about postponing treatments to accommodate life’s special moments, which she wrote this August as part of CURE®’s online contributor Voices program. She was a writer and musician who had taught composition and conversation at the university level. Jen, 43, was a New Yorker, but had also recently spent nearly a decade living and working in Busan, South Korea. Jen was diagnosed with metastatic melanoma in 2014, but that did not prevent her from living out her dreams and having her voice heard through film, blogging, a TED talk and contributing to CURE® - both in print and on the web. One of our valued community members, Jen Sotham, passed away on Nov.
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