The Alumni Association of Hunter College has chosen Leslie Lieth BS ’72 as the 2025 recipient of its major award for community service.
Inducted into the Hunter College Alumni Hall of Fame in 2013, Lieth is a registered nurse and nurse practitioner and has performed distinguished service to the Hunter College and the Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing alumni associations and the college’s Scholarship and Welfare Fund.
Lieth’s volunteer service extends beyond Hunter. Since 2004, she has been a member of the New York City Department of Health Medical Reserve Corps as a nurse-practitioner volunteer responding to health emergencies, including mass evacuations and flu and COVID outbreaks. She also is a longtime volunteer at the neonatal intensive-care unit at Metropolitan Hospital Center in East Harlem, U.S. Tennis Association/U.S. Open Tennis Tournament, the New York City Marathon, and Brooklyn Half Marathon.
As a nurse volunteer with the Volunteer Health Program from 2013 to 2017, Lieth traveled to the Dominican Republic for annual, eight-day medical missions. Mission volunteers performed more than 50 eye surgeries a day, did countless vision screenings, and dispensed free eyeglasses. Her service to the Latino community has also continued stateside. Since 2022, Lieth has volunteered at the Migrant Center at St. Francis of Assisi Church in Manhattan, assisting Spanish-speaking migrants applying for asylum and work permits.
“Through her work in the United States and Latin America, Leslie Lieth truly epitomizes, exemplifies, and embodies the Hunter College motto, Mihi Cura Futuri: The Care of the Future is Mine,” said Alumni Hall of Fame 2025 Committee Chair Barbara Andrews Shackatano. “A proven leader, she is always ready to embrace new challenges with a willing spirit and considerable expertise.”
