Walk for Hope: Mari Feels the Progress in Every Step

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Published 2024-07-15
Mari Uribe-Larios took care of her sister when she was diagnosed with cancer at age 15. Her sister passed in 1991. Years later, Mari herself got diagnosed with cancer — twice — and beat it. “City of Hope took care of me and saved me,” she says.

Mari and her family have participated in Walk for Hope since 2016 and raised more than $10,000 to fight cancer. “We’ve had over 100 people walking side-by-side with me, in support of me,” she says. In 2012 she joined City of Hope’s staff and now works on the Hope Starts With Us Team that builds employee engagement with City of Hope’s mission. “I want to be part of the day where the diagnosis is not fatal.”

The 2024 Walk for Hope is the first year that City of Hope’s largest annual fundraiser to benefit cancer research will be a national event. Walks will be hosted near Los Angeles, Orange County, Chicago, Atlanta and Phoenix or (virtually) in your own community.

Learn more and sign up to join the fight: www.CityofHope.org/WalkforHope