Dallas Lawry, DNP student, was acknowledged in the October 2020 American Association of Colleges of Nursing’s GNSA bulletin as an “Emerging Leader.” Dallas has been active in student governance at Loyola and a leader in Loyola University New Orleans, School of Nursing’s Doctor of Nursing Practice Program. Dallas has helped organize and participated in medical mission trips with Louisiana-Himalaya Association, and worked to get other Loyola graduate students involved in a mission trip.
Additionally, Dallas submitted and received an extramural grant from the American Cancer Society. She was awarded a Graduate Scholarship in Cancer Nursing Practice for her application under the mentorship of Dean Ferguson.
See Dallas’s personal testimonial in the GNSA October 2020 bulletin: