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from the Children’s Therapy Unit at Good Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup, Wash., and Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital in Tacoma, Wash. Members of this core group routinely donate their expertise and free time to plan hands-on rehabilitation training courses and use their own vacation time to travel to China to implement these programs. CPN has also brought Chinese healthcare workers to Tacoma to learn firsthand from children’s rehabilitation programs. The next class of Nobel Laureates will be

inside of her — a desire to pursue a career where she helps others needing medical care.“I would always interact with the patients and they really enjoyed it too,” Ramirez said. “ Since then, I had it in the back of my head that I maybe wanted to do something like that, to help people”  At first, Ramirez wanted to be a doctor, but admits that idea quickly changed after taking a chemistry class during J-Term from professor Dr. Andrea Munro.“I originally came in thinking I wanted to do pre-med, so

and amplifies marginalized voices.” Her dedication to fostering a supportive community is evident in the words of her students. One student noted, “In our class for heritage speakers, she told us over and over again that even if our Spanish is not ‘academic,’ or we have a different vocabulary, or a different accent, our Spanish is still legitimate and powerful. She helps us feel empowered and reclaim our heritage.” Another noted that Davidson’s “radical self-acceptance fostered a fiery passion for