Rochelle Lee Shoretz (July 27, 1972 – May 31, 2015) was an American lawyer and founder and executive director of Sharsheret, an organization supporting young Jewish women with cancer.
During her undergraduate years at Barnard, she married, and during law school she worked as a speech writer for David Dinkins.
[2] Shoretz was a law clerk at the United States Supreme Court for Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 1998 and 1999.
"You have these life plans at 28 years old that you don't really consider will be altered by a major medical crisis at that age", she remembered.
During several years of remission, Shoretz trained for and ran triathlons and traveled widely to Peru, South Africa and Israel.