Theresa Tellez, public health and epidemiology student, to deliver graduation student address
Theresa Tellez, Class of 2023 student speaker at the College of Public Health graduation ceremony on May 11, came to Temple to learn how to make a difference in less advantaged communities, like the one where she grew up in Pennsylvania.
“People where I'm from experience inequities in finances, education, health,” she says. “As a child of an immigrant, the ball was never in my court. In high school, there were times I felt my needs were invisible and that I was invisible. I was drawn to Temple because they saw me when no one else did. They understood the complexities t...