Congratulations to Tamara Moore, one of our 2024 Live Your Dream Award recipients, on earning her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from NC Central in December 2024.
Tamara had already put herself through four years of college while working worked full-time, earning a BS in biology at North Carolina State University. She had always had an interest in healthcare, and had lost her own mother to postpartum preeclampsia when she was 9 days old. Now Tamara was the mother of a 2 year old, Zhuri, and her own pregnancy and postpartum period made her aware of unsettling disparities in maternal healthcare. She was determined to become a midwife, and so in August 2023, she began the accelerated program at NC Central for a Bachelor of Science in Nursing.
With her degree, Tamara will start work as a Labor and Delivery Nurse at Wake Med North with their residency program to begin in February 2025. After working for a year, she plans to go back to school to become a Midwife/Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner.
Tamara is well on her way to fulfilling her dream she shared when applying for the Live Your Dream Award: “to ensure equitable access to quality maternal healthcare for all women, regardless of their backgrounds.”