{"id":11752,"date":"2022-04-14T10:43:39","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T14:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/?p=11752"},"modified":"2022-04-14T12:32:05","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T16:32:05","slug":"elizabethtown-college-names-2022-commencement-speaker-jennifer-breen-feist-94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2022\/04\/14\/elizabethtown-college-names-2022-commencement-speaker-jennifer-breen-feist-94\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabethtown College Names 2022 Commencement Speaker Jennifer Breen Feist, J.D. \u201994"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elizabethtown College announced alumna Jennifer Breen Feist, J.D. \u201994 will serve as this year\u2019s Commencement speaker for the 119th<\/sup> exercises on Saturday, May 14 at 11 a.m. in the Dell on the College\u2019s campus.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am thrilled and honored to join the Class of 2022 as this year’s commencement speaker,\u201d Feist said. \u201cI look forward to being back on campus and to sharing my experience of life after college with this years’ graduates.\u201d<\/p>\n

An advocate for the mental health and wellbeing of healthcare workers, Feist worked to get a federal bill passed in her sister\u2019s memory this year to boost mental health resources for healthcare employees. Feist is the co-founder of the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes\u2019 Foundation<\/a> and sister of Dr. Lorna Breen\u2014who tragically died by suicide after working on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

In March,\u00a0the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act (H.R. 1667),\u00a0AHA-supported<\/a>\u00a0legislation was signed to authorize grants for programs that offer behavioral health services for front-line health care workers.<\/p>\n

\u201cJennifer\u2019s exemplary efforts with her non-profit serve as an example of taking our College\u2019s Educate for Service motto and putting it into action to make profound impacts on society,\u201d Elizabethtown College President Betty Rider said. \u201cWe are pleased to have Jennifer return to Elizabethtown College and share her story and message of resilience with our soon-to-be graduates.\u201d<\/p>\n

“We started our work in honor of my sister Dr. Lorna Breen, and we continue this work in honor of the thousands of health care providers who risk their own personal safety and wellbeing every day in care of others,” Feist said. “We know that Lorna cared about her colleagues as much as she cared about her patients, and we believe this work is an extension of her passion and professional calling.”<\/p>\n

Elizabethtown College will host one ceremony inclusive of all seven Schools. The exercises also will be live streamed at etown.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

More About Jennifer Breen Feist, J.D. ’94<\/strong>
\nFeist is a Political Science graduate of the College\u2019s School of Public service. She also holds a Juris Doctorate from Penn State Dickinson School of Law. Currently, she is a lawyer in Charlottesville, Va. specializing in finance, real estate, and wealth management. In addition to her foundation, Feist also serves as treasurer of the Central Virginia Chapter of Girls on the Run and is also a co-founder of Women United, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting causes that benefit women and children. Learn more about the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elizabethtown College announced alumna Jennifer Breen Feist, J.D. \u201994 will serve as this year\u2019s Commencement speaker for the 119th exercises on Saturday, May 14 at 11 a.m. in the Dell on the College\u2019s campus. \u201cI am thrilled and honored to join the Class of 2022 as this year’s commencement speaker,\u201d Feist said. \u201cI look forward […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[775,7],"tags":[1391,1182],"class_list":["post-11752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-campus-community","tag-alumni-relations","tag-commencement","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11752"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11761,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11752\/revisions\/11761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}