Stephanie Blaine

A typical day in my life stems from relationship building and community partnerships with local hospital systems, community partners in general, and our senior centers. I spend a lot of time in meetings, but in my opinion, a meeting is not just to hear a presenter, but it's also an opportunity to meet someone that you wouldn't have traditionally met in any other setting. A lot of what we do is meetings and relationship building that then turns into advocacy for the population we're trying to serve, while integrating that through a student lens and trying to make anything that our students do a more interprofessional approach. We keep in mind that our campus is there to serve our students who are traditionally of the college age, but we're also bridging that gap to make those intergenerational connections for lifelong learning. What makes me love my job so much is the people - the people that I work with, the people that we get to serve. I do a lot of event planning and bringing all of those stakeholders to the table, and to just sit back and reflect on all the people that you've brought into the room and see them interact and engage with one another is really what brings it home for me. Being able to see those success stories and hear of the relationships that you were able to bridge the gap on is now providing one another with either a service or sometimes just a friendship.