HELA100 Collaborations

Student Nadeea Rahim led her campus in renaming a science lab and launched an annual award for an outstanding full-time black woman in the second year of a degree program in Biology or Biochemistry at Carleton University in honor of Henrietta Lacks.

Frank E.Brady, internationally known poet, was commissioned once again by The Lacks Family to pen a tribute commemorating the 70th anniversary of Henrietta's passing and her HeLa cells to open their 2021 HELA100 Colloquium. Click here to learn more.

This October 4, 2021, the Lacks Family proudly unveiled the University of Bristol commissioned statue by artist Helen Wilson-Roe honoring Henrietta Lacks. This collaboration proudly includes the launch of The Henrietta Lacks Studentship - a six-week paid summer internship for an undergraduate student to work in its laboratories on cell biology, a free in-person visits to the University for pupils to learn more about cell biology, and the development of a curriculum that is available for educators worldwide.

The Lacks Family partnered with the Amerikazentrum Hamburg, Deutsch-Amerikanisches Zentrum, and Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut Sachsen to meet with diplomatic leaders, artists, poets, researchers, scientists, students, community members and conducted podcasts, first-ever workshops, and conversations on Henrietta Lacks' legacy, racism, ethics, patient empowerment, normalized malpractice, oral history, the societal impact of the prison industrial complex and the role of the arts in education.