Student Leadership
2020 Student Leadership– Check back soon for our updated Student Leader Profiles!
2019 Student Leaders
Abou Ibrahim-Biangoro
Summer Research Fellow
Abou Ibrahim-Biangoro is a first year MPH student at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. She has a BS in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and is currently studying within the Environmental Health Sciences department for her Masters. She has a passion for the environment’s impacts on the healthcare system, and how that influences policy.
Maria Calderon
Faculty Database Chair
Maria Calderon is a third year undergraduate at UCLA majoring in Psychobiology. She is passionate about psychology, especially learning about how emotions and social networks influence perception of the world.
Brittany Christian
Chair of Immigrant Youth Toolkit
Brittany is currently a medical student at California University of Science and Medicine. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in cultural anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Brittany’s interest in medicine began through her studies of sociocultural dynamics in medical systems. She pursued a postbaccalaureate program in pre-health, and then completed her masters in biomedical science at Charles R. Drew University of Science & Medicine. She has spent the past year and a half volunteering as a student medical provider and translator for Healing Hearts Across Borders, where she provides care at a monthly free clinic in a men’s shelter in Tijuana, Mexico. Her background in research involves community-based participatory research among underrepresented latinx and black children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in South Los Angeles. Brittany’s hopes to combine her passion for sociocultural research and medicine to improve health for disenfranchised communities.
Ella Jolley
Social Media Co-Chair
Ella Jolley is an undergraduate at UCLA. She is working toward a major in Neuroscience, and she is fascinated by the human brain and the numerous applications of brain research. Specifically, she desires to study the evolutionary development of the brain as a method to understand current neurological processes, characteristics, and conditions.
Adriana Méndez Leal
Speaker Series Chair and Fall 2019 Graduate Fellowship Recipient
Adriana Méndez Leal is a graduate student in the UCLA Developmental Psychology program, studying the impact of early life experiences on neurodevelopment.
Angie Lim
Website Co-Developer
Angie is a graduating fourth year medical student at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and is thrilled to be staying at UCLA for the combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics residency program. She is a quadruple Bruin- she went to undergrad at UCLA and obtained her MPH in Epidemiology at the Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA. Throughout her education and training, she has been actively involved in volunteering work at local free health clinics and research in social determinants of health. Her current interests include primary care, social determinants of health, immigrant health, underserved medicine, and advocacy.
Anna Peare
Faculty Database Chair
Anna Peare is a first year MPH student in Community Health Sciences with a focus in health policy at the Fielding School of Public Health. She graduated with a B.S. in Community and Regional Development and a Spanish minor from UC Davis in 2016. Her current studies focus on maternal and child health, neurodiversity, and immigrant health.
Natalia Garcia Peñaloza
Summer Research Fellow
Natalia is a medical student at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA/DREW joint medical education program. She graduated from San Francisco State University, where she began her formative work with community organizations analyzing social and medical conditions faced by marginalized and vulnerable communities while learning about the labor of love for community and medicine. Later, she worked at a Federally Qualified Health Center as a health educator among various clinics and high schools servicing underserved, immigrant, and homeless populations as well as youth, expectant mothers, and others. Through her medical education and as a future physician, she hopes to work towards ensuring equitable high-quality healthcare for all, especially to those who are most vulnerable.
Monika Petrosyan
Website Co-Developer
Monika Petrosyan is a third year undergraduate at UCLA majoring in English. She hopes to enter into the law world to help those who she believes are treated unfairly in society. She is interested in exploring the various approaches in working towards solving these issues in order to resolve them effectively through critical thinking and empathetic values, in hopes of reaching one unified goal.
Hazel Ramos
Community Engagement Chair
Hazel Ramos is a first year undergraduate at UCLA majoring in Sociology. She is interested in working in low-income communities with at risk youth in the future. She believes mentorship and guidance is vital in a child’s development and wants to further examine the implications at risk youth undergo living in these communities.
Jerusalem Theodros
Social Media Co-Chair
Jerusalem is a first year MPH student in the department of Community Health Sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Jerusalem holds a bachelors of science in Business Administration from Pepperdine University. Her work experience and current interests are in immigrant health and expanding access to care among underserved populations.