Carolina is a recent graduate from Boston University with a B.S. in Health Science and currently completing her Master’s of Public Health at the Boston University School of Public Health. Carolina was born and raised in Mexico and immigrated to Texas and has been living there with her family for the last 8 years. Carolina has been involved in several activities during her undergraduate career and currently in her graduate career she is involved with organizations at the Boston University School of Public Health focused on leadership and social justice.
In the past, she has worked as a research assistant on studies focused on maternal and child health inequities and conducted research of her own focused on eating disorders. These experiences sparked an interest in public health and health inequities. Carolina is particularly interested in health inequities among immigrants, as an immigrant herself she feels like there are often many health concerns among the immigrant population that are either normalized or overlooked and deserve more attention. Issues like access reproductive health services such as abortion among these populations are of main interest to her. Through the ACE Summer Fellowship, Carolina hopes to learn more about these issues herself and bring the attention of the reader to these issues as well.
