Maria is a geriatric social worker and an academic researcher, a sister and an Auntie, who lives with her wife and their dog in Upstate New York. She is also a founder and moderator of the Facebook group for Lesbian Cancer Survivors and Caregivers, which she started in 2007 during her second breast cancer, when she realized that lesbians were invisible in the existing literature and resources for women with breast and other cancers. Maria has been cancer-free for twelve years. [timestamps will be released soon]