ICAN Diversity

A Note about ICAN's Diversity—Staff, Board, and our Global Volunteer Network

Uniquely diverse among cancer patient advocacy organizations, ICAN's global volunteer network spans six continents.

Our boards: four Asians, one African, one African American, two Latino/Latina; our councils: eleven Asians, two Latino, and two Africans.  ICAN's Latino Advisory Council has five Hispanic/Latino/Latina members on the executive committee.

Of key volunteer staff for ICAN, four are African American, two are Latina, eleven are Asian, one is African, and one is Native American.

Our named programs represent Native Peoples, Hispanic/Latino, African American, and Asian.  Essentially, all continents except Antarctica are represented in our ICAN Named Programs (named in honor of or in memory of our patients). 

ICAN board, staff, or volunteers thus represent virtually every known ethnicity.

ICAN's named programs represent Latino/Latin America (5) Canada (4), Native Peoples (2), Australia (1), African American (1), Bangladesh (1), Bosnia (1), India (1), Iran (1), Israel (2), Jordan (1), Macedonia (1), Malaysia (1), Philippines (1), and United Kingdom (1).

Diversity of Sexual Orientation: ICAN serves LGBT patients, their partners, and their families.

Disabled Board, Staff, and Volunteers are welcome at ICAN: Two ICAN board members and two key volunteer staff members are disabled.  There are an unknown number of disabled members of our global volunteer network. ICAN has attracted disabled volunteers for our research teams because of the ease of working remotely for the organization.

Diversity Chairmen at ICAN are tasked to update ICAN leadership about underrepresented patient populations and eliminating health disparities and barriers to clinical trials entry.  These chairmen are tasked with:

1) increasing under-represented populations in clinical trials enrollment internationally; 
2) overseeing LGBT outreach for our patient services; and
3) overseeing diversity issues for our global network.

 

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