Lynette S. Luckers

Lynette S. Luckers is the Founder and President of the Marion Luckers Kidney Foundation. She created the non-profit in 2011 after losing her mother in 2009 to renal kidney failure. Her mother battled diabetes for almost 20 years and succumbed to having a heart attack after two days after burying Lynette’s grandmother. Stress and grief can genuinely have an impact on one’s overall health. Lynette’s mother was a dialysis patient for over five years and was uninformed that she could be on the transplant list. Lynette took an active approach to educating herself about the transplant process and attempted to convince her mother to consider being placed on the transplant list. However, her mother’s health deteriorated, and the physicians did not believe her heart would sustain surgery. This ignited Lynette’s passion for spreading awareness about kidney disease prevention and supporting individuals and families coping with the diagnosis.