Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness Month event shows support for Concordia student Noah Ramirez

Isabella Salters (left) and Nurse Suzanne Briggs (right) helped host the Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness Month event in J-Top with snacks, green ribbons, and stickers.

Photo credit: Elizabeth Salo

By Elizabeth Salo

Students, faculty and staff wore green on March 31 to raise awareness of Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness Month and to show support for Concordia student Noah Ramirez, who sustained a traumatic brain injury in a car accident on March 13.

The event was organized by the Student Life Office and the Student Success Center with candy, popcorn, green ribbons and stickers available in J-Top for those wishing to participate.

Isabella Salters, a graduate student and assistant with the Student Success Center, helped plan the event and said that it was something she had been wanting to do to help support Noah.

“I was talking to someone who is very close to Noah, his girlfriend actually, and it was just something we wanted to do to bring awareness to traumatic brain injuries, and this is the month,” said Salters.

Suzanne Briggs, the nurse practitioner who works in Concordia’s Health Center, brought the donated popcorn, and the Health Center organized resources for people who want to advocate for those with traumatic brain injuries.

Sophomore exercise science major Patience Starwalt participated in the event and said she did it in support of Noah and others who have had traumatic brain injuries.

“I decided to wear green just to support Noah and everybody else that is recovering from TBIs,” said Starwalt. “I knew Noah, and other people with TBIs, too, and I just wanted to show my support for them.”