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People.com

Kelly Cervantes Reveals Her Cancer Journey in New Memoir, The Luckiest — Read an Excerpt (Exclusive) (November 4, 2025)

KatieCouric.com

The Grief We Don’t Talk About (November 4, 2025)

Cognoscenti/NPR

Commentary: “The bad news? I had breast cancer. The good news? Doctors knew what to do” (October 28, 2025)

Commentary: “The choices we made for our family” (October 22, 2024)

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: Kelly Cervantes: Surviving the unimaginable with ‘Hamilton’ and Chicago by our sides. (October 27, 2023)

Commentary: Our front-line workers are on a war front. PTSD will take its toll next if we don’t offer help. (May 1, 2020)

Fortune

Navigating grief is like ‘swimming through syrup,’ one bereaved mom says. How she’s managing to stay afloat (Dec 1, 2023)

Chicago Sun Times

Letters to the Editor: Even for a star in ‘Hamilton,’ the Affordable Care Act could be a godsend (April 4, 2019)

Cosmopolitan

"Why I Had a Late-Term Abortion" (March 8, 2016)

52 Phenomenal Women Project

Renegotiating my own self-value with the world – Meet Kelly (September 8, 2020)

HerViewFromHome.com

When There’s No New Normal (September 29, 2021)

LoveWhatMatters.com

‘My psychiatrist called to ask about Mother’s Day. ‘Can we just skip it this year?’ My mom’s response was an emphatic, ‘No!’: Mom who lost daughter to epilepsy says ‘happy Mother’s Day to all, we’re with you’ (May 2020)

‘The Great Pause,’ I’ve heard it called. I’d been making emotional progress. Then Covid happened.’: Mom says ‘forget your 5-year plan’ after losing daughter to epilepsy (March 2020)

TheMighty.com

How My Definition of Privacy Has Changed as the Mom of a Medically Complex Child (September 26, 2019)

This Is How I'd Like Strangers to Interact With My Child Who Has a Disability (June 14, 2019)