The We Cancerve Movement, Inc.
Bringing swift solutions to children in sad situations because happiness shouldn't have to wait!
Katherine Williams
"I like community service because it provides opportunities to help people in multiple ways. It is especially fulfilling to serve the community when other areas in life are challenging and out of your control. Community service creates safe spaces and a good way to meet people that you may not interact with on a day to day basis."
Katherine Williams, 17.
Hobbies: crafts and other hands-on activities, photography and baking
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Fun Facts: Kate has two golden retrievers, two orange cats and one calico cat.
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Passion Area: Children Aging Out of Foster Care
Katherine Williams, 17, is a member of the all-youth board of advisors of the We Cancerve Movement, Inc., a nonprofit that brings happiness to children experiencing homelessness, catastrophic illness and food insecurity, who are in foster care group homes and orphanages, and to unaccompanied minors. She is a senior at Garrison Forest School and will graduate in June 2025.
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Katherine played a key role in helping We Cancerve plan its 2024 "Art with a Heart" project, which recruited high school students to sketch images on canvasses that were bundled with individual paint sets and palettes and donated to children's hospitals so pediatric patients could make Mother's Day gifts. She co-led a massive food bag stuffing initiative for We Cancerve in 2023 sponsored by Stevenson University, which resulted in more than 400 bags donated to area youth experiencing food insecurity. She's also a regular cast member of On the Move with We Cancerve, a children's TV show. During her time as a member of the board of advisors, she contributed to We Cancerve being named the Baltimore Orioles' 2024 Birdland Community Hero Award winner, which came with a $5,000 grant, and a 2024 Elevate Prize GET LOUD Award winner, which came with a $10,000 grant.
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Right up until she began high school, Kate's only service work included a few activities with a former church. During her freshman year of high school, she began to get involved with her school's Service League, volunteering at events like the Heads and Tails 5k and Doggie Dash.. As part of the Jenkins Summer Service Fellowship offered through Garrison Forest School, she had the privilege of helping out around Baltimore at various places including Chase Brexton Health Care, House of Ruth and Paul’s Place.
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"I like community service because it provides opportunities to help people in multiple ways. It is especially fulfilling to serve the community when other areas in life are challenging and out of your control. Community service creates safe spaces and a good way to meet people that you may not interact with on a day to day basis," she said.
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In addition to service, Kate is a co-head of her school’s Asian Student Alliance and was selected to represent Garrison Forest at the 2024 NAIS Student Diversity Leadership Conference in Denver, CO. She also founded her school’s first Computer Science Club to make the field more accessible and less intimidating for fellow students. Kate is a member of an all-girls Robotics team and aspires to study engineering in college, with a focus on healthcare technology.
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