Nancy Brinker has served her country as the U.S. Ambassador to Hungary and Chief of Protocol of the United States. However, she is best known for her service to the world in the fight against Breast Cancer. Brinker’s sister died of breast cancer in the early 1980s. Brinker promised her sister before she died that she’d do everything she could to put an end to the terrible disease. She started the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure (named after her sister), which has changed the world’s understanding of breast cancer. Rarely talked about in the 80s, Brinker has made a huge impact in awareness, research, and cures for breast cancer that have benefited so many people. In 2009 she was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor given in America.
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