From Left for Dead to Living Proof:

Advocacy at Work · Jun 4, 2026 · 24m

There’s a moment in most survivor stories where everything pivots, where the person standing on the other side of a catastrophe decides what that catastrophe is going to mean. For Vincent A. Lanci, that moment came slowly, quietly, in the form of a support group at Tampa General Hospital, where a young man who had once been left for dead on a Tampa street started to realize that his story could do something for someone else.

That realization would take thirteen years to fully unfold. But the trajectory it set in motion, from trauma to testimony to a life built entirely around helping others…