FRONT lines when COVID-19 ripped through some of the state's most vulnerable communities. Nicialia Nunez, a senior nursing student, worked with Chinle Indian Health Services, where she trained as a certified contract tracer. Nunez handled daily health check-ins with COVID positive patients; she also relayed quarantine recommendations and offered guidance to help individuals find freshwater resources, groceries and medical supplies. Nicialia Nunez and Victoria Anderson Nunez spent the last few months caring for patients within the intensive care unit at UNMH. Nunez said due to strict COVID safety precautions family members and friends weren’t allowed in the hospital, oftentimes this resulted in her serving as a conduit between patients and their loved ones.