Community News Mother and Daughter Honor the Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
D Ashish K. Jha, a frequent commenter on CNN and other major news outlets, spoke to DCD faculty before the opening of school in September.
COVID-19 Expert Gives Guidance to DCD on Reopening School
CD first-grader Sanjana Hwang and her mother Supriya Rao were featured in a segment that was aired on ABC News Live about Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her legacy for future generations. Sanjana comes on around two minutes and 10 seconds in the segment, which can be viewed by scanning the QR code below. Head of School Allison Webster said, “It makes me proud to see one of our students talking about the difference she hopes to make in the world. Thanks to all of [our faculty] for making our classrooms places where students can learn about our world, think about the role they can play in it, and begin taking action now that is appropriate their age. Ruth Bader Ginsburg provided such a beautiful example of a life committed to righting injustice, building relationships, taking steady deliberate action, and caring about the lives of others. She is certainly good inspiration for these times.”
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ast summer, as DCD was preparing its return to in-person learning, our staff and faculty had an opportunity to hear from Ashish K. Jha, M.D., M.P.H., who is dean of the school of Brown University School of Public Health and Professor of Health Services, Policy, and Practice. Before joining Brown, he was the K.T. Li Professor of Global Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI). A well-known expert on COVID-19, Dr. Jha leads the national analysis of key issues around the pandemic, advising policymakers and elected officials at the state and federal level and appearing frequently on national television news outlets such as CNN, MSNBC, and Fox, and in written coverage from national newspapers including the New York Times and the Washington Post. He provided an update on the current state of the pandemic and school reopening strategies. Jha also allowed time for questions, speaking to faculty for an hour about the importance of mask-wearing, ventilation, social distancing, and access to the outdoors, providing reassurance that DCD was following best practices in its reopening plans.
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First-grader Sanjana Hwang spoke on ABC News about the impact on her life of deceased Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Scan the code to view the segment.
