Below are images and videos highlighting the work of the Calliope Joy Foundation, Maria Kefalas, and all the incredible families involved with fighting leukodystrophy.
The Carr-Kefalas family on their Make-A-Wish vacation in August, 2012.
Cal, her mom Maria, and Dr. Amy Waldman with her children Asher, Austin, and Arden at the Cupcake Challenge in 2016.
Josue at home. One of the first MLD children Cal’s foundation helped.
Cal with Cecelia and Amy Price, seated on her dad in 2017.
Check presentation of $125,000 to the Children's Hospital of Philaelphia, January 2020.
Calliope Joy Foundation being recognized by the Eagles.
Award-winning Starbucks-inspired cupcakes from the kids bake-off at the first Cupcake Challenge in 2013.
MLD parents from around the country at the Global Leukodystrophy Initiative Meetings in Phildelphia, May 2019.
Cure MLD co-founders Shanna Quimby and Erica Barnes working to advocate for newborn screening.
Cal is a flower girl in our aide Katie Maratea's wedding, May 2019.
The Carr-Kefalas family at the first Cupcake Challenge in 2013.
Cal appears on the cover of Children’s View magazine.
Hall of Fame Quarterback Jim Kelly throws footballs at the first gala in 2015 to launch the Leukodystrophy Center of Excellence.
Cecelia, Cal, and Giovanni with Pat at our home in 2017.
Cal celebrating her second birthday.
Cal with students and parents at the Cupcake Challenge in 2018.
MLD parents and experts with FDA officials in October 2019. Dean Suhr, Dr. Laura Adang, Maria Kefalas, Matt and Lauren Hammond, and Susan Sullivan
Maria meeting Vice-President Joe Biden at Saint Joseph's University and discussing the power of grief, April 25, 2018.
The Scott family of Norwich England with their children Paige and twins Oscar and Phelix. All three children were diagnosed with MLD and the twins were treated with gene therapy in Milan, Italy. (2015)
Children treated with gene therapy are our "quarterbacks for a cure" and appear with Philadelphia Eagles legend Brent Celek at the 2019 Cupcake Gala that raised $214,000.
Cecelia Price in Milan, Italy receiving gene therapy with her mother Amy Price.
Cecelia Price, two years after her treatment at her home in Omaha, Nebraska.
Giovanni Price and a friend playing miniature golf in 2015.
Cal visits the Cynwyd Elementary School.
A family conference for leukodystrophy patient families from around the world at CHOP, October 2018.
Dr. Waldman and Cal at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia during a Leukodystrophy Center out-patient visit.
Maria trains all summer to run her first 5k and it is (of course) the Cupcake 5k in her hometown of Lexington, MA, December 2019.
Maria with Ashanti DeSilva, the first gene therapy patient treated in the world in Washington, DC, October 2017.
Our friend Sam Buck who has a form of leukodystrophy called vanishing white matter disease or VWM.