MILWAUKEE — With 1,471 Wisconsinites currently on an organ transplant list and with only 60% of people signed up to potentially donate an organ, a yearly push is underway to get more people to sign on and hopefully help to save someone’s life through organ donation.

“There are actually people on the national transplant wait list waiting on a kidney donation for 3-5 years for a donation from a deceased organ donor,” said Julie Cruz, community outreach coordinator for the UW Organ and Tissue Donation Center. “Registering as an organ, tissue and eye donor is super important so we can build that national wait list and that wait list in Wisconsin.”

April is National Donate Life Month, and Cruz said signing up to become an organ donor in Wisconsin is easy.

“In Wisconsin, we can actually register in two different ways,” Cruz said. “The first way is to go online and register on the Wisconsin donor registry — the way we encourage people here is to go to the website HeroicDeed.com — and then the other way you can register as a donor here in Wisconsin is when you go to the Department of Motor Vehicles, to the service centers... you can do it right at the DMV offices.”

Watch the full interview above.