A teeny tiny scratch during a middle school softball game led to Angelina Precilio needing a cornea transplant in order to save her eyesight. Now as an adult, she and her family are active volunteers and advocates for Eversight, raising awareness for eye, organ, and tissue donation.

Learn more about Eversight at eversightvision.org

Lisa Dodson has devoted her career to encouraging people to say yes to organ donation. Through a partnership with the Illinois High School Association, she’s empowering 16 and 17 year olds to make their own decisions about organ donation through the Drive for Life Act. In her personal life, Lisa is a proud donor wife.

Learn more about the Drive for Life and Say Yes campaign with the Illinois High School Association here and here.

Learn more about Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Network here.

Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network President and CEO Dr. Harry Wilkins is a trauma surgeon who became passionate about organ donation after hearing a mother’s painful story of loss. He shares what Gift of Hope is doing to maximize the gift from deceased donors and their families while working to end the wait times for those in need of a life-saving transplant.

Visit giftohope.org for more information.

Marathon runner Haley Sarff-DeLong has more experience with kidneys than most. Her father was on dialysis, she’s a pediatric transplant coordinator, and this year she became a living kidney donor! She leverages her personal experience to give her patients the best care possible.

Walter and Edith Aguilar’s paths first crossed in the most unlikely place: her mom’s dialysis clinic. What was supposed to be a brief trip to donate her kidney turned into a lifetime of love.

Glenn and Cassy Motley are navigating the transplant process together – and they’re taking their YouTube viewers along with them every step of the way.

Check out the Motleys’ YouTube channel here.

Dan Lietz’s career calling was born out of love and loss. What started as romantic relationship has become a lifelong passion for helping people “Say Yes” to organ donation.

This episode is brought to you by Donate Life Illinois. Follow Dan on Facebook and Instagram.

Description: WVON radio host Atiba Buchanan built his career on speaking up and speaking out. When as an otherwise healthy young man he learned he had a silent disease called FSGS, he began to use his voice to advocate for himself and others walking the same path.