St. Jude graduates its largest kindergarten class ever
(From left) Mackenzie, Zoey and Yara are three of the St. Jude patients who graduated on Thursday, May 15, from the Imagine Academy by Chili’s, the St. Jude campus school that serves children from preschool to grade 12. (Courtesy St. Jude Children's Research Hospital)
Imagine Academy is designed to help St. Jude patients keep up with their classwork when their treatment requires them to be away from home for extended periods.
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Aisling Mäki
Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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