Alumni in Action

Patrick O'Malley '96, Kristin Kosta '11 and Assistant Professor of Public Health Studies Katherine Johnson spoke with President Connie Ledoux Book as part of a video series highlighting alumni working on the front lines of the pandemic.

As a physician assistant, Beard remains nimble and able to adapt to ever changing circumstances.

Elon alumni ministers are leading communities to find beauty in simplicity, comfort in online connections and holiness in new places.

Maity Interiano ’07, Jasmine Turner ’15 and Gary Grumbach ’16 spoke with President Connie Ledoux Book as part of a video series that highlights alumni working on the front lines of the pandemic.

The French and international and global studies double major works with the International Organization for Migration in Burundi, a U.N. agency that supports migrants of all kinds. In the face of COVID-19, her duties have shifted to crisis communication and response in the East African nation.

The first grade teacher discusses the shift to remote learning and its impact on herself, her students and her community.

Susanna Hearn '07 discusses the toll the ongoing pandemic takes on her interactions with patients at a Florida hospital and the important role medical professionals play, sometimes under the radar, in the fight against COVID-19.

When recent graduate Brianna Elder signed on to work in education through the City Year AmeriCorps program, she never imagined she would find herself coping with the realities of the COVID-19 pandemic in one of the nation’s hardest hit cities.

In an effort to put small businesses in the spotlight during the COVID-19 outbreak, the team's pilot episode of Sip’d will air on April 9 and focus on local craft beverage artisans in Durham, North Carolina.

Weird Enough Productions, an education technology company founded by the strategic communications and theatre arts alumnus, is making its lesson plans and activities free for teachers, students and parents as schools close in response to COVID-19.