Ready to run: Team meets for pasta, pride before St. Jude Memphis Marathon
The Southern College of Optometry marathon team loads up on carbs Dec. 6, 2024, the night before the St. Jude Memphis Marathon. (Brad Vest/Special to The Daily Memphian)
Southern College of Optometry’s 145-member team is ready to hit the pavement Saturday for the kids of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. But first, pasta.
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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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