What happens when a Brooklyn woman who identifies as queer, liberal, vegan, and an atheist donates her kidney to a conservative Christian man from Virginia?
Kerry Kennedy and Joey Shervey tell the story of what it looks like when compassion outvotes everything else. Their transplant crossed party lines and personal beliefs to create an unexpected friendship.
Then, Lindsay Vigue describes how a small flyer on the wall of a diner led her to become a living kidney donor, and then to becoming the executive director of Donate Life Connecticut.
Resources:
- Donate Life Connecticut
- National Kidney Foundation
- National Kidney Registry
- OrganDonor.gov
- Former Middletown mayor Dan Drew's TED Talk about why he donated his kidney
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GUESTS:
- Joey Shervey: Kidney transplant recipient from Moneta, Virginia
- Kerry Kennedy: Living kidney donor from Brooklyn, New York
- Lindsay Vigue: Living kidney donor and the executive director of Donate Life Connecticut
Jessica Severin de Martinez, Meg Fitzgerald, and Robyn Doyon-Aitken contributed to this show.
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