Dr. Tammy Thaggert has been practicing family medicine since 2000. Throughout her career, she has focused on preventative medicine and treatment of chronic diseases such as diabetes and hypertension in adult patients. Her professional interests also include public health and population medicine. Dr. Thaggert attended Newcomb College and Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology, and she earned a medical degree from Drexel University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, PA.

Rachael Kennedy Kuntz graduated from Newcomb College in 1998 with double majors in Math and Cellular and Molecular Biology, and was awarded the Class of 1909 Prize for the Outstanding Senior. After graduation, she moved to Houston to attend Pharmacy School at the University of Houston and graduated in 2002 with a Doctor of Pharmacy.  She and her husband Shawn (E'98) have 3 children, the oldest of which is a member of the Tulane Class of 2026. 

Laurel Hanson graduated from Tulane University in 2011 with a Bachelor of Arts in International Development and Spanish. She also holds a Master of Arts in Disasters, Adaptation and Development from King’s College in London. While at Tulane after Hurricane Katrina, she developed an interest in disaster risk reduction – how to prevent and reduce the impacts of hazards, and manage disasters.

Samantha Goldstein graduated from Newcomb College in 2004 with a B.A. in English and Spanish. Since then, she has leveraged these language skills throughout her career as a communication and change management consultant to Fortune 50 companies across the U.S. 

Kim Frusciante is the Founder of Early Partners, an innovative non-profit early learning center aimed at scaling to a network of centers in New Orleans. She is a proud graduate of Newcomb College (Class of 2005), where she majored in Political Science and minored in Women’s Studies and International Development. She earned her Master’s in Education (Ed.M.) from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2022.

Chelsea Cipriano (SLA ‘10, PHTM ‘11) has spent her career in public health working towards a more healthy and equitable future.