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Keynote at Putnam County naturalization ceremony urges new citizens to register as organ donors
Summary
Lauren Shields, Community and Government Affairs Liaison for LiveOn New York and a heart transplant recipient, urged new citizens to sign up as organ donors and described her transplant experience and advocacy work.
Lauren Shields, Community and Government Affairs Liaison for LiveOn New York and a double organ recipient, delivered the keynote at Putnam County's Feb. 5 naturalization ceremony and urged new citizens to consider registering as organ donors.
Shields described her personal medical history and recovery: she said that 16 years earlier a virus attacked her heart, she spent about nine months in…
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