Nicole MacKay is a RIC biology student and a sergeant in the ri_air_national_guard who is filling a vital role in the state's #vaccine distribution. She is the non-commissioned officer in charge of storage and handling of the #COVID19 vaccine at the Sockanossett Crossroads site in Cranston. During shifts that can extend as long as 12 hours daily, MacKay leads a team of 24 military personnel members that works mostly behind the scenes. As of mid-March, MacKay and her colleagues had distributed about 30,000 vaccine doses, averaging about 8,500 per week. • Nicole, who trained as an EMT in the Air Force, majored in biology for the same reason she joined the military: to jumpstart a career in medicine. After graduating from RIC, MacKay says she intends to apply to medical school to become an emergency room doctor. She currently works as an emergency room technician at Rhode Island Hospital. • " I feel that I'm helping people when they're at their lowest point," she says. "And the goal for ...