Ken Yoffe and Ellen Weisberg adopted their daughter, Emily, from Chongqing, China at the age of 11 months. In honor of Emily, they co-authored and illustrated a children’s geography book entitled “All Across China” (Chipmunkapublishing, 2009). The book was also written in memory of one of the mothers in their adoption group, who passed away at the age of 39 from breast cancer. Their friend, as well as others close to them who died from the disease, inspired Ken and Ellen to donate the personal proceeds for “All Across China” to breast cancer research, support, and awareness. They are also committed to doing the same with the personal proceeds for Ellen’s young adult novel, “Gathering Roses” (Chipmunkapublishing, 2007) and Ken and Ellen’s children’s geography book, “All Across Canada” (Chipmunkapublishing, 2008). In addition, a portion of personal proceeds are going toward heart disease research and Parkinson’s and dystonia research. For more information about these books, all of which are being sold at a discount on their authors’ website, please visit www.weisberg-yoffe.org .

Tammy was born with a love for horses. She started taking riding lessons in Wiesbaden Germany when she 8 years old. Being a military child & moving around a lot, Tammy was never in a position to own a horse. She did continue to take lessons and bought her first horse at 18.

After graduating from college in 1979 and getting married, Tammy entered the world of corporate America. She held several procurement positions, many customer service positions in the Aerospace and the manufacturing industry to include management positions.  In addition to Tammy’s corporate career she had a second equestrian part time career. This ranged from training, teaching riding lessons to showing and assisting in the implementation of horse shows. She now owns one quarter horse and two miniature horses.
 
In early 2004, Tammy left the corporate world to take care of her parents.  She lost both of her parents to cancer. Her mother passed in 2006 from throat cancer and the side effects of the treatments.  After her mother’s passing, her father who already had Alzheimer’s, developed lung cancer and died in 2008.  While taking care of her parents, Tammy continued on with her part time equestrian career with her last position as the Equestrian director for the YMCA.

She looks forward to working for the 1 in 8 foundation. Tammy says being able to help promote early detection of breast cancer in an equestrian environment is the best of both worlds.