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Kelly Cerialo
The Mercer Hotel
New York, New York

Kelly Cerialo currently works as the front desk supervisor/head concierge at The Mercer Hotel in New York. Prior to working at The Mercer, Kelly worked in the fashion industry as an account executive at Nexus Showroom. She has a B.A. in communications mass media/PR from The College of New Jersey and is returning to graduate school in the fall of 2010 to pursue a M.A. in global communications.

Kelly was diagnosed and treated for MEN (Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia) Type II A Cancer in 2001 and has been in remission for almost nine years. The fight against cancer is close to her heart as her father passed away from the same type of cancer when she was seven years old. In October 2009 and 2010, Kelly hiked the Grand Canyon with Conquer the Canyon and the Cancer Research Institute in order to raise money and awareness for cancer research and immunological studies. Since the hike, Kelly has joined the Young Philanthropists Council and is excited to continue the fight against cancer with CRI.