Lisa Brathwaite is program manager and student relations specialist in the Center for Co-op and Career Development in Northeastern’s School of Law, and has worked to increase the number of students of color in judicial clerkships.
Anu Aga, former company chair of Thermax Global and one of the wealthiest businesswomen in the world, joined Joseph E. Aoun, president of Northeastern, for a discussion about running a family business as a woman, a mother, and a widow.
"That's our civic responsibility to make the change happen," says Margaret Burnham, distinguished law professor and founder of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project at Northeastern.
Molly Dennie, Pauline Seremetis and Victoria Diaz are among the many Northeastern students in healthcare who have been working or serving co-ops at Boston-area hospitals throughout the pandemic.
Maura Eaton, a physical therapy student at Northeastern, helped stock an orphanage in Latacunga, a plateau town in Ecuador, with ankle and foot braces, balls, mats, and wheelchairs.
Nursing student Sarah Calnan is working at the Boston Hope Medical Center, which is running a medical treatment facility out of the Boston Convention Center for homeless people who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2.
Northeastern University’s Center for Inclusive Computing has awarded the first round of grant funding to six higher education institutions, in order to help recruit and retain more women in their computer science programs and boost the representation of women in the field as a whole.