Benjamin Chesson

Benjamin Chesson, Director of Operations

Benjamin, a first year law student at the Wake Forest University School of Law (J.D. '10), has been responsible for transforming the student support network into a nation, 501(c)3 tax-exempt nonprofit organization. Benjamin also created the second chapter of Students of AMF when he was at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (BS Political Science/Public Policy ’07) and is currently starting up a chapter at Wake Forest.

 Prior to his work with the organization, Benjamin knew Anne Marie Fajgenbaum very well through his friendship with David Fajgenbaum and was inspired by her heroic battle with cancer to honor her by helping students to cope with similar losses. In the summer of 2005, Ben took on the duty of Director of Outreach to help make Students of AMF reproducible on other campuses.  Later, he used a Kauffman Grant from UNC to incorporate the organization and then took on all business and legal responsibilities.

Benjamin's e-mail is: benjamin@studentsofamf.org