At the helm of environmental and public health advocacy group GreenRoots, Roseann Bongiovanni (CAS’99, SPH’01) has been on the pandemic frontlines: not working in hospitals but getting residents of Chelsea, Mass. what they needed. At first, that meant distributing resources and information about COVID-19, but now the third-generation resident is trying to get as many of her neighbors and community members vaccinated as possible.
You can read more in Bostonia about the roadblocks to reaching herd immunity that Bongiovanni has noticed in Chelsea—and how her team is overcoming them.