I'm running in memory of my dear friend Katie and to support a wonderful organization.
Katie Kurcz, who passed away in 2017 after fiercely battling cancer, was the co-founder of the Snow City Arts Auxiliary Board. She established Team Snow City Arts - an annual fundraising run for SCA - which has generated tens of thousands of dollars and has brought awareness of the SCA mission to hundreds of new people.
Snow City Arts is an organization that provides one-on-one instruction in the visual arts, creative writing, music, theater and media arts to child and youth patients in Illinois hospitals. Because of SCA, children in hospitals have received classroom credit, improved their grades, discovered talents and interests that had gone previously untapped, and been engaged in creative-decision making activities in an environment where little personal choice is available.