Education
Franklin & Marshall College. Rutgers University.
Franklin & Marshall College. Rutgers University.
Born in Nashville, Tennessee to Doctor Lawrence Bonchek and Doctor Rita Bonchek, she studied at Cornell University and later graduated from Franklin & Marshall College, and earned a master’s degree in sociology from Rutgers. Adams, who lived in Darien, Connecticut, where she died at age 45, had been treated at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She was one of many people who publicly condemned a decision in 2012 by Susan G. Komen for the Cure to stop funding breast care at Planned Parenthood.
The decision was reversed shortly afterwards.