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California, United States

Stanford, California, United States

Martha Eliot Community Health Center, Jamaica Plain

Developed and implemented quality-Improvement interventions to improve health navigation for a low-income, predominantly immigrant patient population. Research was presented at the 2019 Pediatric Academic Societies Conference and was accepted in the BMJ Paediatrics Open Journal

Medford, MA

STEM Ambassadors is a professional development program with a mission to change the conversation of STEM through representation and engaging hands-on activities in the classroom. By becoming better leaders, communicators, and presenters, we hope to connect with underrepresented students to reinforce that attending college and pursuing STEM fields can be.

Medford, MA

Examined social influences on health policy in response to the outbreak of HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C. Research findings were presented at Tufts University and UMass Worcester Medical School.

Malden, MA

Oversaw functions for the Sharewood Project, a free healthcare program for predominantly low-income, minority populations in the Greater Boston Area.

San Francisco Bay Area

As part of the National Institute of Drug Abuse Summer Internship, I assessed barriers to accessing digital Hepatitis C information among intravenous substance users. Findings were presented in an oral and poster presentation at the UCSF SRTP Summer Research Symposium, winning best oral presentation, and a poster presentation at the 2018 Biomedical.

Greater Los Angeles Area

SMASH Academy provides a tuition-free, intensive STEM education to high school students of color focused on college and career readiness. The three year SMASH Academy program, a 5-week residential experience for each of the three summers during high school focused on developing the knowledge and skills that Scholars will need to help build strong, diverse.