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Financial Health During Economic Disruption
6/4/20 11AM EST

About This Event

With Featured Speakers

Sue Matthews
Author, President – Taylor Matthews Foundation

About Sue

Sue Matthews is the President of the Taylor Matthews Foundation, a tay-bandz organization, which is a 501 C-3, founded by her then 11 year old daughter Taylor, who passed from pediatric cancer at age 16. Sue is a nationally recognized advocate for pediatric cancer.

Sue is the author of Paint Your Hair Blue, a mother’s longing to give enduring eloquence to her daughter’s voice, to not let it go silent. Readers will come away from the book with a vivid understanding of how truly short and precious life is and a greater willingness to add more color as we go along.

TMF funds innovative research and treatments that can reach sick children today, not months or years from now, to improve outcomes and reduce the long-term survivorship side effects associated with pediatric cancer.

Through our various fundraising initiatives, we are changing the course of pediatric cancer treatment at institutions such as Columbia University Medical Center, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, The National Institute of Health and MD Anderson Cancer Center.

We continue to fight in Taylor’s honor and will never falter in our commitment to children with cancer. We are keeping Taylor’s spirit, her thirst to make change, and her dedication to help others alive. While her life was tragically cut short, her mark on the world lives on in our family, in the foundation, and in children who have and will win their battles against cancer.

Sue is a member of the Children’s Council at Columbia Medical University, the National Association of Professional Women, the National Organization of Italian American Women, 6 Figures, Coalition Against Cancer, Cambridge Who’s Who, The National Association of Professional Women, the NYS Society of Certified Public Accountants and the American Institute of Public Accountants.

Melissa Norden
Executive Director, Bottomless Closet

About Melissa

Prior to her appointment as Executive Director at Bottomless Closet, Ms. Norden worked at The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) for 13 years, where she as most recently Senior Vice President, Chief of Staff and General Counsel in the Office of the President. She helped found New Yorkers for Clean Livable and Safe Streets (NYCLASS), a nonprofit dedicated to phasing out New York City carriage horses. Prior to joining the ASPCA, Ms. Norden served as counsel to Madison Square Garden, where she collaborated with the management of the New York Knicks, the New York Rangers and the New York Liberty on the Madison Square Garden Cheering for Children Foundation, raising funds for after-school programs for at-risk urban youth. Ms. Norden is a member of the board of directors of Life Vest Inside, a former member of the board and a current member of the Tufts Lawyers Association (TLA), the Tufts Non-Profit Group, the Tufts NYC Women’s Networking Group and the Non-Profit Committee of the American Corporate Counsel Association, as well as a former member of the Committee on Non-Profit Organizations of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Ms. Norden received her Bachelor of Arts from Tufts University, where she was named to the Dean’s List with a double major in American History and Spanish. She has been an alumni
interviewer for Tufts University for 20 years. She earned her Juris Doctor from Brooklyn Law School where she was on The Journal of Law and Policy and received numerous awards for academic achievement. Ms. Norden was admitted to the New York State Bar in 2000.