Liz “Spot” Kessler, RN

Elizabeth “Spot” Kessler was first introduced to cancer when her brother’s best friend was diagnosed with Leukemia at the age of 16. Shortly after his death she was told by two different people in her life to reach out to Brian Crater, the new camp director at Camp Ronald McDonald for Good Times. Liz and Brian hit it off and a long personal and professional relationship began. Liz started as a volunteer, then became a staff member, then went back to volunteering. Through her years at camp, Liz often thought about becoming a nurse, particularly after spending so much time with the camp nurses. 

About 5 years ago, Liz quit her corporate job and went back to school to become a pediatric hematology/oncology/blood and marrow transplant nurse specifically due to her work with Camp. She currently lives in Seattle but comes back every summer as a nurse because Camp is her home. 

Liz also volunteers with Nick of Time Foundation which preforms electrocardiogram, echocardiogram, and teaches CPR to local high schools in an effort to avoid sudden cardiac arrest. She has spent eight of the last twelve months with Floating Doctors, putting on medical clinics for 24 different indigenous communities in the Bocas Del Toro Archipelago in Panama.