"Live, Love, Laugh... Dance, Dance, Dance!" –Jessica Ann Fox
Daughter, sister, niece, aunt, cousin, friend. Athlete, world traveler, dancer, student, teacher. Inspiration. These words help describe Jessica Fox, though her true nature can be defined by her accomplishments. With so much to give to this world, Jessica never stopped pushing herself for more opportunities. Never in the material sense, rather to gain further knowledge of cultures around the world, to push herself physically, and to find new and exciting methods to make learning fun for her students.

As a traveler, she visited the most exotic and remote places on earth, yet she never lost sight that home was where her family was. And even though she'd seen the world's most amazing beaches, she made a plan each year to rent a summer house with family at the Jersey shore.

Jessica continued on with her travels and learnings throughout her illness. While teaching Spanish at three schools in the Middletown, NJ school district, she earned a Master's Degree in Spanish from Rutgers University. Jessica taught through her chemotherapy treatments and also continued exploring the world, securing a medical staff abroad for any treatment needs. She went skydiving in the Andes, rock climbing in Colorado, glided along the fjords of the Netherlands, and rode a camel in Morocco. To further master foreign languages, she enrolled in classes in Italy, Spain, Mexico, and Peru.

Perhaps the strongest testament of Jessica's strength and character came in the form of athletics. The dance classes she enjoyed as a child taught her the physical discipline needed for her future athletic feats. She studied martial arts, practiced Capoeira under the tutelage of Professor Kasey Sanders, and ran the NYC Marathon twice, once before she was diagnosed with cancer and once after. Jessica trained for the 2006 marathon while enduring the rigors of chemotherapy. She ran it amazingly with an official time 30 minutes less than her pre-cancer run in 2003.

Jessica Ann Fox fought cancer the same way she lived her life: with every fiber of her being. She kept her determination, stayed motivated, and throughout all of the physical and emotional challenges that cancer brings, she managed to still find humor in life. She never quit, and never complained. During her illness, Jessica participated in several experimental drug trials, however none of these treatments were able to contain the spread of cancer for very long. Jessica passed away on January 29, 2008, after a four-year battle with triple negative breast cancer. She was 36 years old.

Led by the strength of Jessica's mom, Lorraine, friends and family established The Jessica A. Fox Foundation in Jessica's honor, and are proud to help promote The Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation, so that some day young women like Jess won't have to lose their lives to triple negative breast cancer.

In 2008, Afro Brazilian Martial Arts and Fitness posthumously awarded Jessica Fox with a yellow belt in Capoeira. This honor states: "Amarelo (Yellow) represents 'gold', the happiness of having reached a richness of Capoeira vocabulary... Students with yellow cordoes know that, as in life, they need to keep aspiring to higher levels. Their goal is the limit that is truly limitless."