Kat Casey woke up from passing out on her condo floor in indescribable pain and having trouble breathing on June 24, 2014. She ended up in the ER and heard the words, “You have cancer.” Surrounded by family and friendship, Kat found her new ‘normal’ through nine months of chemotherapy to be her involvement with work, friends, and a good glass of wine. Her story is one of choice of attitude and a commitment to win in the midst of uncertainty. Her sense of normalcy — friends and a glass of wine which she cleverly named her ‘chemo noir nights’ — became the inspiration for her passion project and nonprofit organization, Chemo Noir. Chemo Noir was born in 2016 — a growing 501c3 nonprofit organization based in Jacksonville, Florida. The nonprofit hosts wine centric events that raise money to provide financial support to the families, friends and fighters in their battle with cancer.
Chapters in our life are always changing. After playing soccer professionally and dabbling in a number of marketing jobs, Kat Casey founded her first agency in 2007. Continuing to create, the uncertain chapter of cancer hit Kat on June 24, 2014. She woke up from passing out on her condo floor in indescribable pain and having trouble breathing. She ended up in the ER and heard the words, “You have cancer.”
Her story is one of choice of attitude and a commitment to win through the uncertainty. Surrounded by family and friendship, Kat found her new ‘normal’ through nine months of chemotherapy to be her involvement with work, friends, and a good glass of wine. Her sense of normalcy — friends and a glass of wine which she cleverly named her ‘chemo noir nights’ — became the inspiration for her passion project and nonprofit organization, Chemo Noir.
In 2016, Chemo Noir was born — a growing 501c3 nonprofit organization. Based in Jacksonville, Florida, hosts wine centric events that raise money to provide financial support to the families, friends and fighters in their battle with cancer. Hear her amazing story and her commitment to win through paying it forward for families who need it.
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