DENVER — Many people who volunteer for Jodi’s Race for Awareness may have a personal connection to gynecologic cancer. Heather O’Connell did not.
What began as helping a friend with a local nonprofit event has turned into more than a decade of service to the Colorado Gynecologic Cancer Alliance (CGCA), the organization behind Jodi’s Race for Awareness.
O’Connell first volunteered for the race in 2014 while looking for ways to become involved with a nonprofit organization…