Nicole Sheahan serves as the President of the Global Colon Cancer Association.

Previously, Ms. Sheahan held leadership positions at the Colorectal Cancer Alliance, including Chief Development Officer and Chief Operating Officer.

Supporting health-related causes has long been a passion of Ms. Sheahan. Inspired by her mother’s cancer diagnosis in 1988 and subsequent death in 1994, Ms. Sheahan has dedicated her professional career to health and human service organizations.

Ms. Sheahan received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Ms. Sheahan then worked for various health-related causes for more than a decade in New York City before returning to her hometown, Washington, D.C. in 2012.