OneLegacy Inspires Hollywood Announces First Three Board Members: Actor Danny Trejo, Showrunner Carol Barbee and Hip-Hop Artist Freeway
08 Mayo 2024 - 11:00AM
Business Wire
OneLegacy Inspires Hollywood advocates for
authentic, accurate and inspiring stories that bring awareness to
organ, eye and tissue donation.
OneLegacy Inspires Hollywood, formerly known as Donate Life
Hollywood, announces the first three board members of the revamped
initiative: Danny Trejo, Carol Barbee and Freeway. OneLegacy
Inspires Hollywood is a project of the OneLegacy Foundation, the
organ procurement organization that serves seven counties
throughout Southern California. The project is led by
Writer-Producer Sarah E. Fahey, under the guidance of OneLegacy
leadership.
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OneLegacy Inspires Hollywood Announces
Three Board Members Who Are Advocates for Donation and
Transplantation. (Graphic: Business Wire)
“Storytelling has the power to change the narrative, and we want
to do that with organ, donation and transplantation,” Fahey said.
“By empowering writers, producers, executives and actors with the
facts we can debunk myths around lifesaving donations and
transplantations. Trejo, Barbee, and Freeway all exemplify advocacy
in this area.”
Danny Trejo’s platform provides a voice for marginalized
communities, and in his outreach work, he has come across several
lives saved through organ donation and transplantation, including
his longtime assistant. “OneLegacy doesn’t just save lives, they
save familia,” Trejo says in a video on the OneLegacy Inspires
website.
Hip-Hop star Freeway received a lifesaving kidney donation from
a deceased donor in 2019. When Freeway’s son passed suddenly in
2020, the family chose to donate his organs. Freeway’s son was able
to save four lives through organ donation.
Carol Barbee has written and created many noteworthy projects,
including the show Three Rivers, a show that starred Alex
O’Loughlin and centered around the busy lives of transplant
surgeons. Barbee worked closely with OneLegacy to ensure accuracy
and authenticity in her powerful series.
OneLegacy Inspires Hollywood offers a plethora of services to
the entertainment industry. Industry professionals and medical
writers participate in guided tours of the OneLegacy donor recovery
center and headquarters in Azusa, California, the most medically
advanced facility of its kind in the nation. OneLegacy Inspires
Hollywood connects executives, writers and producers with experts
in the donation and transplantation field. Currently, they are
hosting a film competition for high school students that offers the
winner a scholarship and mentorship. For over a decade, the
OneLegacy Inspires Awards Gala has honored television, film, news
and web series that portrayed donation and transplantation in a
positive light. Previous winners include Grey’s Anatomy, Fire
Country, The Good Doctor, B Positive, Robin Robert’s Last Chance
Transplant and the web series Letters of Hope.
OneLegacy Inspires Hollywood will establish a full board with a
total of eight members representing different aspects of the
entertainment and medical industries. For more information about
this initiative please contact mediarelations@onelegacy.org.
About OneLegacy
OneLegacy is the nonprofit organization dedicated to saving
lives through organ, eye and tissue donation in seven counties in
Southern California: Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San
Bernardino, Ventura, Santa Barbara and Kern. It serves more than
200 hospitals, 9 transplant centers, a diverse population of 20
million donors and families across the region and waiting
recipients across the country. Becoming an eye, organ or tissue
donor is easy and can be done by registering online at
donateLIFEcalifornia.org/OneLegacy or by “checking YES” at your
local DMV. For more information, visit OneLegacy.org
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Tania Llavaneras, OneLegacy tllavaneras@onelegacy.org,
323-354-6619