Terri Wingham was diagnosed with breast cancer at 30. She expected the physical difficulty of treatment. What she didn’t expect was what came after — the loss of identity, the silence, the strange disorientation of surviving something and not knowing who you are on the other side of it.

That experience became the foundation for A Fresh Chapter, which Terri has spent 15 years building into an organization that serves cancer patients, survivors, caregivers, and advocates across the United States, Canada, Kenya, and South Africa. The programs AFC offers are grounded in a simple but hard-won belief: that the emotional realities of illness deserve as much attention as the clinical ones, and that reinvention is possible even when the path back to your old life is closed.

As a speaker, Terri brings that same honesty to every room she enters. She doesn’t offer platitudes or tidy frameworks. She offers tools she has lived her way into, stories that trust the audience, and questions that stay with people long after they leave. She has spoken at Stanford Medicine X, a TEDx event with a global pharma partner, pharma team offsites, and patient conferences across the cancer community.