Where is cate edwards

It's been nearly three years since Cate Edwards, 31, lost her mother, Elizabeth, attorney, activist, bestselling author, former Glamour Woman of the Year, and wife of former presidential candidate John Edwards, to metastatic breast cancer.

To honor her mother's legacy, Cate's now joined Count Us, Know Us, Join Us, which offers resources to those who are living with advanced-stage breast cancer and the caregivers and family members who support them.

When I spoke with Cate, we talked about how her own life has changed since losing her biggest fan, her mom Elizabeth, in Cate Edwards, at home in Washington, D. Cate Edwards with her mother, Elizabeth Edwards. Glamour: Can you describe to us how advanced breast cancer affected your mother, Elizabeth, and your family? In her more than ten years practicing law, Cate has taken on some of the largest corporations in the United States and the world, in state and federal courts, on behalf of the regular people whom they have harmed.

In law school, Cate Edwards practiced for two years as a student attorney at the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau on behalf of indigent clients throughout the Boston area. Cate Edwards began her legal career as a law clerk for U. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema for the Eastern District of Virginia. Following her clerkship, she joined Sanford Heisler, a boutique civil rights law firm in Washington, D. Prior to joining Edwards Kirby, Cate served as a founding partner of Edwards and Eubanks, a law firm formed to fight for the rights and equality of regular, working people.

The reception, Edwards wrote, will be outdoors at the acre family estate and have a "rustic romantic" theme that she planned with her mother. According to the Times, guests will start with a two-hour outdoor cocktail reception with stations serving shrimp and grits and Carolina crab cakes, before sitting down for dinner.

The groom's parents, foodies from California, had a strong say in the menu, the newspaper said. Guests will move to a Chapel Hill hotel for the after-party, which is expected to go until 2 a.

In lieu of traditional wedding gifts, Edwards, who left a firm in Washington, where she was practicing law, to start the Elizabeth Edwards Foundation, has suggested donations to the foundation instead.

The foundation provides mentors to disadvantaged college-bound students. You can really trust they're there for the right reasons. The couple got engaged the day after Thanksgiving last year.

Upham surprised Edwards by proposing "in front of the green-shuttered house that my parents had brought me home to as a newborn," she wrote in Glamour. Later, Upham, who had helped Edwards decipher her mother's medical reports, served as a pallbearer at Elizabeth Edwards' funeral. But she did approve of the young man who would have been her son-in-law, even assisting in his surprise proposal to her daughter. A few days after the engagement, the family announced that Elizabeth Edwards' cancer had spread.

She died Dec. His trial for federal violations of campaign finance laws stemming from his affair with Rielle Hunter , which produced daughter Quinn, was set to start this month.