Shaniece Criss, SD ’15, Commencement 2015 Student Speaker

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SBS doctoral student, Shaniece Criss, ’15 was selected to deliver this year’s student speaker address. Shaniece reflected on her Grandmama Sarah as the person who inspired her to pursue a career in public health.

After her grandmother passed away from cancer, Shaniece realized “there were many mechanisms at work that had shortened her life, especially a social environment that systematically harms health.”

Read the address here

Photo: Kent Dayton