By the time Riley had completed her bachelor’s degree in nursing, the school had launched a doctoral program, which fell right in line with her goals. She married the summer after graduation and immediately enrolled in the Doctor of Nursing Practice. She now lives in Cleveland with her husband, Byron, and works in town as a family nurse practitioner. 

Riley now sees patients on a daily basis. “Most of the patients I see are in pain and/or have gotten injured,” she says. “My goal is to bring light to them by showing compassion and love, and hopefully making their experience in the clinic a little better and easing their pain.” She is a prime example of so many light bearers emerging from Lee’s School of Nursing and answering the world’s pain with love.