The Rock CF Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation. Founded and led by Emily Schaller, the Rock CF Foundation is dedicated to increasing the quality of life for people with Cystic Fibrosis. With the help of a core group of volunteers, the Foundation utilizes the arts, entertainment, fashion and fitness to support research initiatives and heighten public awareness in the fight against cystic fibrosis.

 Emily has CF and was diagnosed when she was 18 months old. Instead of letting CF run her life, she is very much in charge and is using every ounce of what she has to spread awareness and raise funds to help the other 30,000 people living with CF in the U.S. and the others worldwide.

 Emily takes her health very seriously and contributes a healthy diet and a rigorous exercise program to her stable health. Even with all of her efforts, CF sometimes gets a head of her and causes her to spend weeks on end undergoing treatment to fight lung infections. Each day Emily has a routine of breathing treatments, chest physical therapy and swalling anywhere from 30 plus pills. She does all of this while mainting an ever present smile.

When Emily was diagnosed, her parents were told that she wouldn’t live to make it out of high school (the life expectancy for those living with CF was just raised to 37 years). Not only has she defied the odds that the doctors had given her, she has used her illness as well as her passion for the arts to raise countless dollars for CF research and has educated thousands of people about Cystic Fibrosis.

The Rock CF Foundation promotes and produced anything from benefit concerts to bike rides. Emily has even compiled and sold out of a compilation CD featuring twelve Detroit bands, including her own band HELLEN which she plays drums in. Detroit Rocks CF Volume 2 will be available March 15 at the 5th annual Just Let Me Breathe benefit show. Also look for the new CD on cdbaby.com and iTunes soon.