Lisa Bonchek Adams
Lisa Deborah Bonchek Adams was a noted writer, blogger, and outspoken supporter of and advocate for breast cancer research, employing social media, including her own personal blog as well as Twitter and Facebook accounts.
Born in Nashville, Tennessee to Dr. Lawrence Bonchek and Dr. Rita Bonchek, she studied at Cornell University and later graduated from Franklin & Marshall College, and earned a master's degree in sociology from Rutgers.
Adams, who lived in Darien, Connecticut, where she died at age 45, had been treated at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She was one of many people who publicly condemned a decision in 2012 by Susan G. Komen for the Cure to stop funding breast care at Planned Parenthood; the decision was reversed shortly afterwards. Adams was survived by her parents, brother, husband and three children.
