Help Kyra fight Ulcerated Invasive Melanoma. Kyra is a mother to a toddler entering the most energetic stage of childhood during her treatment year, and is a small business owner and private chef on Maui. Her job as a mother and chef relies heavily on using her body.

As of now, she has limited use of her arm after having surgery to remove the Stage-2 Melanoma and surrounding lymph nodes. She has a year of immunotherapy ahead to battle this cancer and make sure she stays cancer-free.

If Kyra has fed you, nourished you, supported you, created for you, lifted you, held space for you, or inspired you in any way this is the moment where returning that energy can truly impact her life.

Donate if you can. Community matters now more than ever.

READ ON TO LEARN MORE ABOUT KYRA'S JOURNEY:

After a year of dermatologist visits and finally demanding a biopsy, Kyra was diagnosed with Stage IIB invasive nodular melanoma- one of the deadliest forms of skin cancer.

She is in recovery from a double surgery where they made a large incision in her arm and removed nearby lymph nodes. She has a year of immunotherapy ahead. Melanoma is only 1% of all skin cancers, yet causes 90% of skin cancer deaths.

Post-surgery, her lymph nodes and scans have come back negative so far, which is a gift; but clear scans cannot detect microcells, and recurrence risk remains high. This is why Kyra now begins modern immunotherapy every 3 weeks for the next year.

Kyra is a mother to a wild toddler entering the most energetic stage of childhood during her treatment year, and a small business owner private chef on Maui. While she’s building ways to transition her income remote and less physical, her foundational income has always relied on using her body: loading equipment, hauling food, and long hours on her feet. She has no paid leave safety net. She was instructed to avoid lifting over 10 lbs and is in physical therapy weekly for nerve damage and lymphedema.

What she cares about most is protecting her daughter and family from financial fear while she fights to up her chances for survival, and fights to build a future where she can be fully present.

This fundraiser supports Kyra being able to stabilize, rest, and go through treatment without sacrificing safety for her child — while she transitions to remote, sustainable, self-sufficient income.