Nice to meet you, I'm Drew Wodecki! From training in epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California Berkeley's School of Public Health, I worked with a lot of numbers and theories to make sense of morbidity and mortality. These data points represent people with hopes, values, loved ones, and lives filled with hope and longing. Yet what often happens in trying to quantify death and hardship, is that in the mess of modern statistical analysis, social theory, and medical advancement, we only really know that all people will converge in one unifying act; death.While some may find this sad or at best sobering, I find it invigorating. In a sport where you know the final defeating score, will you play like you have won? For me, I want free up others (especially those marginalized and underserved by discriminatory institutions) from preventable hardships by advancing medical / health technologies, care, and systems. I want others to live unhindered and decide for themselves what makes our limited life treasurable and enduring. In my exploration on therapeutic approaches to preventing AMD at the Berkeley School of Optometry, to my research at the School of Public health working with infectious disease modeling and food insecurity in children, I am still on my own search of what work will come alongside my values and goals in my limited time. From this work, to making paella and periogies for friends, playing my family heirloom banjo and cello for my grandpas, or hiding myself in nature's silence, scripture's comfort, or kids novel's wonder, I aim to abide in kinship to my neighbor and hopefully reach the limits of meaning.
Listed skills include Data Analysis, Working With Children, Public Speaking, Data Entry, and 1 others.