April is National Donate Life Month, an annual commemoration of organ donors and the recipients they have helped. For Tracy Floyd (NURS ’91) and Carla Jackson (CGS ’91), the time of year has come to be a special one, but neither could have known it as they sat at Pitt commencement in 1991.

The women weren’t close in college. They had reconnected through mutual friends at Homecoming events in 2010 and the years that followed — exchanging phone numbers and becoming friends on Facebook — but living in separate states meant a more distant connection.

Then in October 2015, Jackson posted on Facebook that she was raising money for a National Kidney Foundation Walk at the Pittsburgh Zoo. Read More