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Maggie was the sister of Spotlight Health speaker Elizabth Lesser. She trained as a nurse practitioner after college. Elizabeth Lesser co-founded Omega Institute. She will speak as part of the Caregiving track at Spotlight Health. In the weeks leading up to the Festival, you can find more blogs from Festival speakers on our website. Below is an excerpt from her essay. My younger sister Maggie was a renaissance woman—a no-nonsense nurse practitioner in a rural Vermont community; an accomplished artist; a mother and farmer and beekeeper and maple syrup producer. And she also was my stem-cell double, something we discovered when her lymphoma roared back into her blood after a long remission and she needed a bone marrow transplant in order to live. We were thrilled and also dumbstruck when it turned out that among the siblings, I was the one whose cell tissue perfectly matched Maggie’s. There are four of us in my family—four girls, each with a role given during childhood. I was the one with her head in the clouds. Maggie was assigned to the ground. Read more. The speaker list will be available in May. Watch for details. | 