About Baddies Beating Cancer
Built from experience. Driven by connection.
Baddies Beating Cancer is a survivor-led community built around a simple belief: every woman deserves to feel seen, supported, and connected to herself, during treatment, through survivorship, and beyond.
Medical treatment addresses the disease. We support the woman living through it.
A diagnosis can change how a woman feels about her body, her confidence, her relationships, her routines, and the life she knew before.
BBC does not replace medical care. It stands beside it, supporting the parts of the cancer experience that medicine was never designed to carry.
Rooted in movement, music, and connection, we’re building a growing collection of survivor- and practitioner-led experiences designed to support women through every stage of cancer.
From dance, yoga, movement, and meditation to guided conversations, practical resources, and shared experiences, BBC offers ways to care for your body, navigate your emotions, reconnect with yourself, and learn from women who have been there.
Whether you’re newly diagnosed, in treatment, recovering, navigating survivorship, or figuring out what comes next, you’ll find experiences and resources you can turn to when you need them, at your own pace.
Supporting the woman behind the diagnosis means making space for who she is, what she’s carrying, and who she’s becoming.
The Mission
Supporting the woman. Not just the diagnosis.
Baddies Beating Cancer exists to bridge the space between medical treatment and the lived experience of cancer.
Our mission is to create an accessible, survivor-led community where women navigating cancer can find connection, movement, meaningful support, and resources that nurture their physical and emotional well-being.
Rooted in the belief that caring for the whole woman matters, we’re building experiences that help women reconnect with themselves and one another—from diagnosis through treatment, survivorship, and beyond.
Medicine treats the disease. We’re here for the woman living through it.
Baddie to the Bone
Meet Crystal
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Crystal Vaughan Ramakrishnan knows firsthand that a cancer diagnosis changes everything — but it doesn’t change who you are at your core.
Diagnosed with Stage 3C cervical cancer in 2025, Crystal found herself navigating treatments, uncertainty, and profound personal change. Through it all, one thing became clear: women need more than medical care. They need connection, community, and opportunities to feel like themselves again.
That belief became the foundation for BBC — a community built to support the woman behind the diagnosis.
Read Crystal’s Full Story
Crystal Vaughan Ramakrishnan is the founder of Baddies Beating Cancer, a survivor-led nonprofit providing support and community rooted in movement, music, connection and experiences for women navigating cancer—from active treatment through survivorship.
Long before BBC existed, Crystal’s work was centered around bringing people together. Her career has spanned advertising and digital media in New York City, event production and entrepreneurship, community involvement, and, most recently, dance fitness. Across every chapter, the common thread has been connection: creating spaces where people can show up, let go and feel more like themselves.
At the age of 41, Crystal was diagnosed with Stage 3C cervical cancer. Cancer changed her understanding of wellness almost overnight.
She had an exceptional medical team treating her disease and a deeply supportive circle of family and friends—but she discovered there was another part of the experience that was harder to find support for. She missed movement. She missed music. She missed feeling connected to her body. And she wanted connection with women who understood what it meant to live inside cancer treatment while still wanting to feel like themselves.
She didn’t just want help staying alive. She wanted ways to feel alive.
That realization became the foundation for BBC.
After reaching NED—No Evidence of Disease—in November 2025, Crystal began building the resource she wished she’d had during treatment: a platform where women affected by cancer could move, dance, learn, create, connect, and explore practices that support the parts of the cancer experience medicine alone isn’t designed to address.
Today, Crystal serves as Founder and Chief Baddie Officer of Baddies Beating Cancer, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
She wants every woman facing cancer to use BBC as a trusted resource to help navigate cancer—not only focusing on living, but finding more ways to feel alive while doing it.
Crystal lives in Old Greenwich, Connecticut, with her husband, three children and two English bulldogs. When she’s not building BBC, she’s most likely teaching a dance fitness class, making a playlist, driving somebody somewhere, planning her next adventure. And in true Baddie fashion, finding an excuse to turn up the music.
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Sometimes connection begins with one woman saying, “I understand.” BBC is growing from that place — the belief that being seen by someone who gets it can make room for hope, honesty, and belonging.
As this community takes shape, our vision is women reaching back for one another: sharing their experiences, making space for every part of the journey, and reminding each other that a diagnosis is never the whole story.
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Your invitation.
We’re building something different. A community shaped by the women who need it, the women who’ve lived it, and the women who want to make it better for those coming next.
Whether you’re navigating a diagnosis, finding your way through survivorship, or showing up for someone you love, there’s a place for you here.
Join the Baddies. Be part of the community, share what matters to you, and help shape what we build together.