This is the second year for a program that operates across various Sentara facilities in Hampton Roads and is designed to expand access to health career coaching for students of diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds.
The 20 or so Green Run Collegiate students were quick when Dana Weston Graves, president of Sentara Princess Anne Hospital, asked what kind of healthcare career had caught their interest. The high schoolers, clad in blue Sentara polo shirts, called out “postpartum nurse,” “radiology tech,” “Navy nurse,” “neurosurgeon,” “anaesthesiologist.” “All of the things that you said you want to be, I .
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Spencer Mathews
Before the spring semester of the 2018-19 school year, I had thought many times about joining the Western Herald to potentially see what I could do to contribute to the sports section.
I was coasting along with my schoolwork while writing for a couple different online sports websites and I had planned on continuing down that road. Living 35 minutes off campus, that was just too big of a logistical challenge to commit myself to anything that occurred on campus outside of my classes, especially with the other jobs I held in my hometown.
But things changed during that semester after a conversation I had in my News Writing and Reporting class with former editor-in-chief of the Herald (sports editor at the time), and now a good friend of mine and MLive reporter, Samuel Robinson.