Acknowledgements

The Advocates Mentoring Advocates program was designed, delivered and evaluated by an interdisciplinary team that included:

• Barbara Brenner, DrPH, LMSW, Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Community Outreach and Translation Core, Environmental and Genetic Determinants of Puberty (Growing Up Healthy)
• Sarah Evans, PhD, MPH, Postdoctoral Fellow and Outreach Coordinator, Children’s Environmental Health Center, Department of Preventive Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
• Karen Miller, President, Huntington Breast Cancer Action Coalition and Community Partner, Breast Cancer Genomics in Windows of Susceptibility to Endocrine Disrupters
• Laura Weinberg, President, Great Neck Breast Cancer Coalition and Community Partner, Breast Cancer Genomics in Windows of Susceptibility to Endocrine Disrupters
• Andrea Rothenberg, MS, LCSW, Director of Health Education, Mount Sinai Hospital; Community Outreach and Translation Core, Environmental and Genetic Determinants of Puberty (Growing Up Healthy)
• Clarissa Martinez, BA, Coordinator, Witness Project of Harlem, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, Department of Oncological Sciences, Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
• Lina Jandorf, MA, Professor, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control (CPC), Department of Oncological Sciences, Tisch Cancer Institute; Director of the Minority, Outreach, Recruitment and Education (MORE) Core of the Tisch Cancer Institute and Principal Investigator of the Witness Project of Harlem.

We would also like to acknowledge these important members of our team: the Witness Project of Harlem members (Glorie R. Browne, Elizabeth A. Carde BSN RN, Judith Crockett, Sherline James, Yulinda Lewis-Kelly, Lynn Little, Reather McAllister, Sharon McLeod, Elsa Iris Mendez, Alice Miller, Lee Molyneaux,  and Desiree Walker) who stepped forward to participate in this project, to learn and then teach their communities about breast cancer and the environment.  They are extraordinary women. The Advocates Mentoring Advocates Training program was shaped and polished by the questions they asked and the presentations they created and delivered.

We would like to thank and acknowledge the support of Mary Wolf, PhD, Principal Investigator, Environmental and Genetic Determinants of Puberty; Susan Teitelbaum, PhD and Jia Chen, PhD, Co-Principal Investigators, Breast Cancer Genomics in Windows of Susceptibility to Endocrine Disrupters, and Rochelle Osborne, Administrative Manager, Department of Preventive Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Study names/grant numbers
This project has been supported by an Opportunity Fund administrative supplement, Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Program (BCERP), a collaboration of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the National Cancer Institute. Award numbers for parent and supporting grants: U01ES012770, U01ES012771, U01ES012800, U01ES012801, U01ES019435, U01ES019453, U01ES019454, U01ES019457 and P01ES009584 from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), NIH, DHHS, CSTA-UL1RR02988.