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  1. Dwan Cannon, master of social work degree graduate
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    Dwan Cannon ’21MSW Works with At-Risk Veterans: It Feels Like What I was Meant to do

    Dwan Cannon '21MSW is an SRO case manager at the New England Center and Home for Veterans, a care and service provider for former military service men and women at risk for homelessness.

  2. Ande Lyons
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    Ande Lyons ’89MBA Champions Startups as a Live Stream Host

    Lyons understands the struggles of starting a business. An entrepreneur for over 30 years, she has started four of her own businesses in that time. Now she hosts StartUp Life LIVE Show, a weekly live stream show offering business advice to entrepreneurs.

  3. Bianca Valerio with City of Pasadena monument
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    Bianca Valerio '13 Becomes First Hispanic Woman Elected to Pasadena City Council

    As an artist and elected official, Bianca Valerio takes a creative approach to her community's problems. We spoke with Valerio about her journey into local politics and her hope to redefine what young women in her community are capable of.

  4. Areen Shahbari
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    Connection and Support: Areen Shahbari ’11MBA Brings the Simmons Spirit to Arab Women

    In 2013, Areen Shahbari ’11MBA, ’11C established Cactus International, which has provided hundreds of consultation sessions and dozens of courses, workshops, and lectures on entrepreneurship for Arab and Middle Eastern women.

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    Maureen Thornton Syracuse ’68 on Making an Impact in Low-Income Communities

    A member of the College of Organizational, Computational, and Information Sciences Advisory Board, Maureen Thornton Syracuse '68 spent her career working in several non-profit organizations.

  6. Jessica Reeves, graduate of the family nurse practitioner program
    Alumnae/i Feature

    Tips from the World's Most Productive Nurse Practitioner

    Jessica Reeves '17MSN is a Nurse Practitioner who is as interested in the well-being of her fellow providers as that of her patients. So she decided to share her expertise in her book, Secrets From The World's Most Productive Nurse Practitioner.

  7. Eva Rios Alvarado, graduate of the library and information science degree program
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    Eva Rios-Alvarado ’14MS Advocates for Equity in Community College Libraries

    As the Student Equity & Outreach Librarian at Mt. San Antonio College, Rios-Alvarado wants students to know that the library is for everyone. Learn how she reframes the idea of a college library and empowers others to use the library to their advantage.

  8. Taylor Mahoney, biostatistics major
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    PhD Candidate Taylor Mahoney ’15 on Her Journey as a First-Generation College Student

    Before Taylor Mahoney ’15 became a PhD candidate at Boston University, she was a first-generation college student at Simmons. Read about her takeaways as she navigated college life, and the unique support Simmons provided.

  9. Justin Cancel, graduate of Simmons University MSW program
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    Justin Cancel ’21MSW on the Rewarding Work of Witnessing Progress

    As assistant program director of Adult Community Clinical Services at Aspire Health Alliance, Justin Cancel is able to directly apply lessons from Simmons' masters of social work program to his work with clients and coworkers.

  10. Jazzmine White, alumna of the computer science degree program
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    Jazzmine White ’17 Takes the Confidence She Learned at Simmons to Speak Up at Cisco

    While completing her computer science degree, Jazzmine White '17 was encouraged by her professors to do more, and do it well. Now as a full-stack software engineer at Cisco, White has the tenacity to take an idea and run with it.