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Greg Hardesty

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Journalist, ultrarunner, teacher, father
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USC Professor Erroll Southers is a real-life Jack Ryan

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By Greg Hardesty
| University of Southern California
Leaving medical school and moving across the country to become a dog catcher isn’t the expected start to a career for someone who ended up becoming a professor at one of the nation’s top universities – oh, and a former undercover FBI agent. When Erroll Southers was pondering a follow-up to his first book, “Homegrown Violent Extremism” (2013), literary agents and publishing companies had two words for him: Forget it.
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Price real estate grad helps redevelop L.A. County General Hospital

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By Greg Hardesty
| University of Southern California
Eddie Pech grew up in Boyle Heights. His high school, Woodrow Wilson, is located a little over a mile from the USC Health Sciences campus. He vividly recalls the former L.A. County General Hospital, the 1933 Art Deco landmark that sustained damage from the 1994 Northridge Earthquake and was permanently mothballed in 2008 following the opening of the new adjacent county hospital.
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COVID-19 pushed Price MHA grad to pursue a public health career

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By Greg Hardesty
| University of Southern California
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Alex Gramajo was a 15-year-old high school student working part-time at a fast-food drive through in Milwaukee’s South Side, where he grew up as the child of Latino immigrants. Gramajo experienced first-hand the barriers faced by minority communities in his historically working-class community, from language gaps to under-resourced clinics. His parents, who had construction jobs, were deemed essential workers in 2020, as was he as a McDonald’s employee.
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