Biography

Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, I witnessed the health discrepancies of my family living in urban Illinois and rural Wisconsin. Combined with my maternal lineage and my experience with a genetic cancer syndrome, I was inspired to improve health equity across diverse populations. This led to my undergraduate studies in psychological and brain sciences and music at Washington University in St. Louis, where I learned the importance of finding consilience between diverse fields of study. I applied these philosophies in spearheading community education and public health interventions and conducting research in both the basic sciences and psychology. Drawing upon these experiences, I am excited to continue my studies at Cambridge alongside my fellow Gates-Cambridge scholars, where we are united in our pursuit of leaving meaningful impacts on our communities and the world. As a Population Health Sciences student at Cambridge, I look forward to gaining the expertise to both mean well and do well in my aspirations to improve health equity through research and tailored interventions in medical and community health education.

Previous Education

Washington University Psychological/Brain Sciences