Robert Long MS

Robert Long is the Executive Director at Uplifting Athletes. It is truly an honor to love what do and allow me to combine his passions of sports and fundraising to help a cause so near and dear to my heart. At Uplifting Athletes, we raise money and awareness to fund research for rare diseases and enhance student-athlete life skills development and rare disease patient engagement. As a rare disease survivor, he has the opportunity to help others as so many have helped.

Robert Long is a graduate of Syracuse University where he pursued a Masters in New Media Management from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. He also received his B.S. from Syracuse University and the Martin J. Whitman School of Management. He played football all four years at Syracuse and was a team captain my junior and senior years. In December of 2010, He was diagnosed with brain cancer which led me on an amazing journey. Since being diagnosed he has worked with several charities to raise awareness and money for cancer research. He has been extremely fortunate in my life to meet so many outstanding people.