Miami Dade College (MDC) will recognize ten alumni on the frontlines of the pandemic in a special Heroes Edition of MDC’s annual Alumni Hall of Fame ceremony Wednesday, June 9.
This year’s honorees have gone above and beyond in their respective areas of expertise in education, emergency management, fire rescue, health care, law enforcement, medicine, mental health, nonprofit, nursing, trade, and logistics, to support South Florida during the most critical periods of the pandemic.
Now in its 19th edition, MDC’s Alumni Hall of Fame celebrates outstanding alumni who are civic and business leaders in the community and across the nation, while also raising essential funds to support student scholarships for the next generation of leaders. Since 2003, MDC’s Alumni Hall of Fame has inducted more than 380 distinguished alumni. It is the signature fundraising event of the Miami Dade College Foundation. Learn more at www.mdc.edu/halloffame.
The 2021 MDC Alumni Hall of Fame inductees are:
Education
Teresa Ellen Murphy, Elementary School Teacher, Spanish Lake Elementary
Emergency Management
Pete Gomez, Senior Director, Academy of International Disaster Preparedness, Florida International University (FIU)
Fire Rescue
Brandon Webb, Battalion Chief, Miami-Dade County Fire Rescue, Special Operations Division
Health Care
Sheila Jones-Coakley, Nurse Manager, Dialysis Unit, Nicklaus Children’s Hospital
Law Enforcement
Chief Brian Rafky, Chief, South Operations Division, Miami-Dade Police Department
Medicine
Shirley N. Codada, M.D., Regional Medical Director, VITAS Healthcare
Mental Health
Betsy Godoy-Rosado, EPIC Team Clinical Supervisor, 4Kids, Inc.
Nonprofit
Jessica Gutierrez-Castillo, Co-Founder, Buddy System MIA
Nursing
Caridad Cuellar, Registered Nurse, Baptist Medical Center
Trade and Logistics
Cesar F. Larancuent, Head of LATAM Strategic Growth, DB Schenker
