Hope Award for Social Influence Recipient
Kellee Stewart is an actress and self-proclaimed egg advocate who created "Warrior Wednesdays," a live IG talk show, during the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020. After preserving her fertility, Kellee learned how little she knew about reproductive health. She made it her mission to create a platform where physicians and passionate patients could gather weekly to have transparent and often emotional conversations about everything from fibroids, endometriosis, IVF, and MRKH, to name a few.
Kellee became focused on speaking to communities often left out of the national conversation of infertility and debunking the myths surrounding Black and Brown men and women facing challenges in building families. As host of "Warrior Wednesdays," Kellee has welcomed celebrity guests such as Niecy Nash and Danielle Brooks, along with doctors, and dozens of people from the US and abroad who have a story to share, a tragedy to heal, and a miracle to give hope.
As an actor and writer, Kellee has been on our tv and movie screens in Chicago Med, All American, Guess Who, Hot Tub Time Machine, and the upcoming Netflix comedy Obliterated. She proudly shared her egg freezing journey in the 2021 OWN Network documentary Eggs Over Easy by director Chiquita Lockley. In 2022, Kellee helped take National Infertility Awareness Week to new heights by being one of the official celebrity partners to flip the switch and turn the Empire State Building orange in honor of infertility awareness everywhere.