Class of 2021: RIC Social Work Grads Help Trace the Pandemic s Curve
As contact tracers, this trio of pending Rhode Island College graduates were part of an 18-person School of Social Work team that assisted thousands of vulnerable people caught in the wave of COVID-19.
05/17/2021
By Jeff Theodore
The internships that Daphney Coriolan, Daniela Gonzalez and Colleen McKenna completed this spring were anything but mundane; in fact, the experiences may shape the trajectory of their professional lives.
As contact tracers, this trio of pending Rhode Island College graduates were part of an 18-person School of Social Work team that assisted thousands of vulnerable people caught in the wave of COVID-19.
RIC Social Work Grads Help Trace the Pandemic’s Curve
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Social work students, from left, Colleen McKenna, Daniela Gonzalez and Daphne Coriolan worked as contact tracers during the pandemic.
The internships that Daphney Coriolan, Daniela Gonzalez and Colleen McKenna completed this spring were anything but mundane; in fact, the experiences may shape the trajectory of their professional lives.
As contact tracers, this trio of pending Rhode Island College graduates were part of an 18-person School of Social Work team that assisted thousands of vulnerable people caught in the wave of COVID-19.
The internships, coordinated by the School of Social Work field education office and RIC Assistant Professor of Social Work Michele Paliotta, required contact tracers to work with either the college s COVID response on campus or with Pawtucket and Central Falls residents in their Beat COVID-19 effort.
Jerry Lee Hamill of Enfield, N.C. is the 2021 High Cotton winner for the Southeast. Jerry Hamill has been extremely successful and continues to produce bountiful cotton crops in a very efficient, sustainable manner.
Jerry Hamill has been successfully and profitably producing cotton in North Carolina for more 52 years so he must be doing something right.
That’s one clear take away from the many cotton industry peers who nominated Hamill for the 2021 High Cotton Award for the Southeast; he does all he can to produce the best crops he can with the goal of perfection. His peers know that Hamill does things right, which has been the key to his success in both the good years and lean years.