Generation Y 10 years after 9/11
Category: Keeping Up With Gen Y
August 31, 2011 | BY Tamara Bell
This September 11 marks the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks that brought down the World Trade Center, wreaked the Pentagon, and forever changed our lives. But how have the 9/11 attacks continued to shape our society and its youngest members?
Dr. Sally Karioth, professor of nursing and certified traumatologist at Florida State University, joins Keeping Up with Gen Y to talk about how older generations can learn a thing or two from Generation Y, who have adjusted much better to the changes brought by 9/11. She also discusses how young people, with their broader worldview, can lend a hand to help the United States become a better global neighbor.
MORE ABOUT SALLY KARIOTH, PH.D.
Dr. Sally Karioth, professor of nursing, Florida State University
Dr. Sally Karioth is a professor of nursing and certified traumatologist at Florida State University. For more than 25 years, Sally has been a counselor, helping people cope with the death of loved ones. She has been active in trauma work, and is called in frequently to speak to tragedy survivors. In the aftermath of 9/11, Sally counseled the survivors of the terrorist attack on the Pentagon and children who lost parents in the World Trade Center.
Sally is a 1967 graduate of the Wisconsin Green Bay Bellin School of Nursing and a 1969 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which in 1992 honored her as Outstanding Alumnus. She went on to earn two master’s degrees and a Ph.D.
Author of “If You Want To Know If You’re Dying, Ask the Cleaning Lady (And Other Thoughts On Life and Happiness),” Sally has also contributed to two other widely available books: “Chicken Soup for the Surviving Soul” and “Feeling Safe: Talking to Children About War and Terrorism.”
Sally has received numerous national, state and local awards, including the Joan Ashley Fiffick Award, given each year to the nation’s most humanistic cancer care giver, and the Ross Oglesby Award, given annually to the students’ choice for most influential teacher at Florida State University. She also teaches each summer at the FSU Study Center in London, has worked with cancer patients at the University of London Hospital, and conducted palliative care seminars in Norway.
You can listen to the show below or you can download it as a podcast from our iTunes page. And you can find us on WomensRadio.
Tags: 9/11, featured, Florida State University, Gen Y, Sally Karioth, trauma
About the Author
Tamara Bell: Tamara Bell is the editor of Y Gen Out Loud. She began her journalism career as a reporter in Dallas, Texas. A few years later, she moved into politics and government, working for both Democratic and Republican members of the Texas Legislature. When not working on Y Gen, Tamara is a lecturer in the Advertising Department at The University of Texas at Austin. Tamara has a B.A. in Journalism from Texas A&M University and a Ph.D. in Journalism from The University of Texas at Austin.
