History of Middle Name Love

and the Pink Angels

Through my nonprofit, I connected with the Pink Angels from a Myanmar orphanage, meeting a teen girl battling rare, aggressive cancer. Leveraging my 25 years of research and management experience, I raised $13,000 in weeks, leading a volunteer team from Egypt, the Philippines, Thailand, and Myanmar.

Young monks in pink robes eating meals at low tables in a hall.

Our collective resilience and our volunteers’ selfless love for this cancer child, beat cancer and she is now cancer free. Embracing that deep passion in myself for someone else when I was in deep pain, and being so bold, I was true to myself, to express and I had hope and I took action, I was fearless. That in a way, authentically spoke Me to the world, I learned that the power of love is limitless and only by loving ourselves can we truly love others and make a meaningful difference.

Group of children in pink monk robes and one in casual clothing standing in front of a van.

In the end she and I saved each other.  Now, I caught up with myself.  And I found Truth has always been on my side.  I have been guided  by Truth to learn how to love myself. I found my home is right on my back.

Group of young Buddhist monks in pink robes holding gift boxes inside a room.