JJ Singleton was born raised and still live in the mountains of western North Carolina, a small town of Canton, NC close to Asheville. I played college football and graduated from Western Carolina University with a history and political science degree. After graduation I went to work for my uncle’s family business as operations manager until I got sick in 2015.
Surgery chemo and then it metastasized. Since that time I've been living with incurable cancer. As an advocate, I have worked as a national ambassador with Fight Colorectal Cancer, is on the national survivor board of the Colon Cancer Coalition, the Jr board for stupid cancer, and has advocated on Capitol Hill on behalf of those with colorectal cancer. Ive done advocacy work with the National Cancer Institute, the American Cancer Society, and have spoken on behalf of pharmaceutical companies about my lived experience with cancer especially in the areas of Colorectal cancer, AYA cancer, rural cancer care, access to screenings, and clinical trials.