Andrea Kilgannon, BSN, is a registered nurse with expertise in critical care and an extensive pre-nursing background in community health. In addition to earning a BSN with honors from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Nursing in 2019, Kilgannon holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology and foreign language and a master’s degree in Romance languages from the University of Memphis.

Kilgannon’s activities at UTHSC include serving as the procedural officer for the Student Nurses Association, Honor Council Chair for the Nursing Student Government Association, and a College of Nursing representative for UTHSC Unite, a resource organization concerned with improving the visibility, strength, and support of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA+) students and initiatives on campus. Kilgannon was inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society and the Imhotep Society at UTHSC in 2019 and received the Imhotep Award and the College of Nursing Alumni Award while a student at UTHSC in 2019.

Kilgannon’s community activities include volunteering for the Memphis Full Spectrum Doula Collective, the Ronald McDonald House of Memphis, OUTMemphis – the LGBTQ+ Community Center of the Mid-South, and the Brand New Congress for the Mid-South. Kilgannon currently works at a microbiology laboratory while preparing to return to school to study medical laboratory science.