I attend the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a Human Development and Family Studies major (Pre-medical). I have taken the initiative to volunteer abroad in Honduras for two consecutive years and soon in South Africa in December 2016 to gain some insight on health disparities on a global scale and offer assistance in mitigating these health disparities. These are just a few of the places I have been, and in the future, I hope to expand my travels. I am an avid researcher who is driven by a fierce passion for helping populations that are underserved and disadvantaged. My goal in life is simple: Help those in need.

"The drive to be useful is encoded in our genes. However, when we gather in very large numbers, as in the modern nation-state, we seem capable of levels of folly and self-destruction to be found nowhere else in all of nature.
But if we keep at it and keep alive, we are in for one surprise after another. We can build structures for human society never seen before, thoughts never heard before, music never heard before."
- Lewis Thomas