Alumni Honored for Outstanding Careers and Community Impact
Two alumni from the College of Health and Human Services have been recognized by UNC Charlotte’s GOLD Alumni Network with the 2024 10 Under Ten Award for their professional and personal achievements.
The annual award honors alumni who have graduated within the past 10 years and whose careers have been distinguished by significant accomplishments and who are strengthening communities through their civic leadership.
Aregash Theodros ’19 M.S. is an emergency medicine physician assistant at Atrium Health in Charlotte. She completed an Emergency Medicine Fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic, which sharpened her skills for high-pressure environments. While at UNC Charlotte, Theodros helped organize free health-risk assessments at senior centers in Mecklenburg County, helping to bridge critical gaps in health care for older adults. She received her master’s degree in kinesiology from UNC Charlotte’s College of Health and Human Services and her bachelor’s degree from Appalachian State University.
Theodros recently participated in a “Pathways to Careers” panel discussion on campus hosted by the Department of Applied Physiology, Health, and Clinical Sciences. She and three other kinesiology alumni spoke to students about how their education shaped the roles they’ve chosen in the workforce.
Celia Karp ’14 is a social and behavioral scientist dedicated to research, teaching, mentorship and advocacy in the field of women’s sexual and reproductive health. As an assistant professor in the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, she investigates psychosocial determinants of reproductive health, including preferences, empowerment and decision-making related to pregnancy, contraception, and family planning and the health systems shaping women’s health and well-being across the lifespan.
Karp is the past recipient of a Fulbright research fellowship to Ecuador and a National Institutes of Health grant to support research in Uganda. She received two bachelor’s degrees at UNC Charlotte: one in public health sciences from the College of Health and Human Services and one in communication studies from the College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences. Karp received her doctorate in population, family and reproductive health from Johns Hopkins University.