SAM PAIGE

Artist, Inspirational Speaker and Last Cut Project Founder

Sam Paige is an artist, writer, and parent, with a passion for life. While she's earned degrees in History, International Relations, and Culinary Education, been a jewelry-maker, lived abroad, and reached fluency in multiple languages, Sam credits their health challenges as her greatest teachers. Those experiences shaped their worldview and the manner in which they have learned to give back as an artist and entrepreneur.

Sam models vulnerability and self-inquiry in their life. They continuously ask themself and others through their Last Cut community, "How can I own my life and make my life my own?"

As a young adult cancer survivor and BRCA1 previvor, Sam has learned to use life experiences as fuel, generating raw dialogue with others about these life-changing moments through their speaking engagements, original podcast series, Last Cut Conversations, their book, LAST CUT, and LAST CUT workbook.

Sam is committed to supporting individuals and organizations that are working on racial justice platforms, youth empowerment programs, and BRCA and other cancer research. Sam modeled in the powerful 2017 “Commit to Something” campaign for international gym brand, Equinox, freely displaying their scars from their preventive double mastectomy performed in 2008 after testing positive for the BRCA1 gene mutation that indicates a heightened risk for specific cancers, including breast and ovarian. Sam has been featured in Elle, Glamour, New York Times, Shondaland, among others. They have given inspiring talks at the Girl Boss Rally and Cylces+Sex in Los Angeles, as well as workshops for Get Lit Literati, Girls Rock Santa Barbara, and Goals for Girls. Sam served on the Executive Board for Get Lit - Words Ignite for 4 years.

Sam lives with their daughter in Los Angeles, California.