FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 14, 2018
Lincoln, NE — “I really have a passion for helping people,” says Sydney Armbruster, who hopes
to be a physician assistant in a rural community one day.
The Falls City, Nebraska, native is a senior disease and human health major at Peru State College. She shares her rural experience in healthcare and housing in the Bold Voices student
segment at 13:53 of Episode 17 of the Rural Futures Institute’s weekly podcast launched today with featured guest
Christiana McFarland of the National League of Cities.
Expecting to be placed in a rural community after becoming a Rural Futures Institute (RFI) Serviceship student in 2018, Sydney was surprised to learn she would spend her summer in Omaha
with the Omaha Municipal Land Bank.
The Omaha Municipal Land Bank is a local governmental nonprofit organization that
was established by the Nebraska Legislature to develop housing strategies for regional
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Sydney Armbruster
“Once I got to Omaha, I learned a whole new world that joined housing and healthcare,”
she says. With the Land Bank, she got an inside view of how important housing is to
a community and witnessed the critical connections between health and housing.
“It made me grow as a person and will definitely shape how I practice medicine in
the future,” she says of her RFI serviceship experience. “It definitely opened my
horizons to what the world has to offer and how many people are working for positive
change in the world today.”
The RFI podcast, “Rural Futures with Dr. Connie,” is available on iTunes, Stitcher, SoundCloud, Google Play and Spotify.
RFI Student Serviceship details are available at http://ruralfutures.nebraska.edu/serviceship.
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This release was written by the Rural Futures Institute and originally found at http://ruralfutures.nebraska.edu/sydney-armbruster-intersects-housing-and-healthcare-on-episode-17-of-rural-futures-podcast/