It takes only one to make history. Just look back on influential Americans – where would jazz music be without Louis Armstrong, who took it to Broadway and beyond? Or what would childhood be like without entrepreneur Walt Disney, who penciled and voiced countless characters?
The passion of Jackie Archer, an agent for ERA Sunrise Realty in Canton, Ga., is equally as contagious. Earlier this 
year, Jackie stood next to former NFL player Chris Draft as Georgia Governor Nathan Deal signed a bill into law that called for the creation of a Lung Cancer Awareness license plate. The very first in the United States that reads, “In Georgia Lung Cancer Matters.”
“I honestly didn’t think that I would be alive to see this happen, but I am,” exclaimed Jackie in a CBS Atlanta interview, a stage three lung cancer survivor who only discovered a mass after a 2005 car accident, “My accident saved my life.”
You’d think Jackie was a pack-a-day smoker. But as a non-smoker, she’s out to change that stigma. Last year she secured November as a local Lung Cancer Awareness Month. This year alone she advocated for an awareness license plate, with all funds going to research and early detection measures. She also coordinated a “Shine a Light Vigil on Lung Cancer” event where 53,000 of its empty venue seats symbolized the number of lung cancer related deaths that occur every 120 days in the United States.
It only takes one – and in Georgia that one person bringing lung cancer front and center is ERA’s very own, Jackie Archer. Visit JackiesHope.org to learn more.
