When Autumn Wong ’25 heard news of the Dec. 13 mass shooting, her mind immediately went to her friends, the students she met when she was a community coordinator and the advisees she worked with during her time as a Meiklejohn peer advisor.
Wong messaged her former residents to offer financial aid and administrative assistance for students trying to find flights out of Providence.
She started purchasing flights for students at 11 p.m. on Dec. 13 after “most people had gone to bed,” she wrote in a message to The Herald. “But there were still a lot of students who were nervous about getting out” of Providence who contacted her throughout the night, she added…