Lindsay Avner

Lindsay Avener was recently featured on CNN’s Young People Who Rock.

Albert Camus said, "There are some people who prefer to look their destiny straight in the eye." Lindsay Avner is, without a doubt, one of those people. At a healthy 23, she volunteered to get a double mastectomy because virtually every woman in her life, her mother, grandmother, great grandmother, aunts and cousins, suffered from or died of breast cancer.

Avner took control of her own destiny after a blood test revealed she had a genetic predisposition to the disease. She didn't want to live in fear. She wanted to meet her future husband and say, "we got this out of the way so our family won't go through what I did growing up."

See a video interview with Lindsay at CNN. Visit her nonprofit organization Bright Pink, which provides education and support to young women at high-risk for breast cancer and ovarian cancer.