Our Mission & Vision
At The Teal Society, our mission is to empower women through awareness, education, and compassionate support for gynecological cancers. We are committed to providing women with the knowledge and resources they need for prevention, early detection, and treatment—helping them take charge of their health with confidence. Through strategic global partnerships, we secure funding and resources that ensure women in need have access to essential medical care, including screenings, professional consultations, and critical support services.
The world we are working toward
A world where every woman has the knowledge to protect her health, the access to be diagnosed early, and the support to get through treatment — and where gynecological cancers are discussed openly, without shame or fear.
Essential care we help make accessible
- Screenings
- Professional consultations
- Critical support services
Prevention
Clear, honest education about risk factors and symptoms, so prevention becomes an everyday conversation instead of a taboo.
Early Detection
Screening access and awareness campaigns that bring detection forward — to the point where treatment can change an outcome.
Treatment & Support
Compassionate support that stays with women and their families through consultations, treatment, and everything after.
My Story – Nicole Alexander, Founder of The Teal Society
The cancers we speak about
- Cervical
- Ovarian
- Uterine
- Vaginal
- Vulvar
My mother was diagnosed with vaginal cancer. It is a disease so rarely named that the women around us had never heard of it — and many of the clinicians we met had barely been taught to speak about it. Watching her move from one unanswered question to the next, I learned how quickly a diagnosis can turn into isolation when nobody has the language for what is happening to your body.
What hurt most was not only the illness. It was the silence that surrounded it — the pauses in conversations, the things we were too uncomfortable to ask, the fear that made us wait longer than we should have. I came to understand that silence is not neutral. It delays detection. It steals options. It leaves women to face the hardest thing of their lives without information, without support, and without a community that already knows the words.
“Silence is not neutral. It delays detection, it steals options, and it leaves women to face the hardest thing of their lives alone.”
We founded The Teal Society in 2014 to break that silence. Our purpose was simple and specific: to talk openly about cervical, ovarian, uterine, vaginal, and vulvar cancers — the gynecological cancers that too often go unseen and undiscussed — and to make sure that no woman has to face one of them alone.
“We founded The Teal Society in 2014 to break the silence around cervical, ovarian, uterine, vaginal, and vulvar cancers.”
Everything we have built since then grew out of that promise. We educate, we advocate, and we fund the practical things that keep care within reach: screenings, professional consultations, and the support services that hold a family together during treatment. Every screening drive, every retreat, every conversation we start is a small act of the same refusal my mother's diagnosis taught me — we will not be silent about this again.
Nicole Alexander
Founder of The Teal Society
A promise becomes a non-profit
The Teal Society is founded to break the silence around gynecological cancers and to stand beside women facing them.
Awareness, education & support
Our programs reach women across three regions — funded through partnerships that keep essential care within reach.
Ready to break the silence with us?
Your support funds screenings, consultations, and support services for women facing gynecological cancers.