Personal Vision
When people ask me what I want to do, I tell them two things. I want to work in medicine, specifically women's health, and be a business owner. When people ask why, my answer is simple: I want to ensure that women of all ages are informed about their health choices. I've always been the person to come up with multiple ideas for businesses, fun events, projects, and plans. In middle school, one of the biggest problems I saw was how uninformed young girls were about health resources, sex, and identity. These misconceptions and lack of access to information put many girls in danger. Around this time, I also started volunteering with Kaiser Permanente doing health fairs. Through that experience, I saw how important it was for people in my community of all ages to have access to information about their bodies. This truth was even clearer to me after completing my internship with West Oakland Health this summer. Further encouraging me towards the pathway for medicine.
I want to go to school to use my passion to help others, and myself become more educated and start my own business. Education is the key to helping young girls and women in my community become more informed. I want to have and be able to use the tools to make it happen. I've spent years talking to doctors and nurses and hearing about the problems and misbeliefs working in the community. I want to work to change that so that girls are no longer misinformed and have access to real help. I'm currently working on implementing health events at my high school during my senior year. I will also help spearhead the NCWB Bay Area Chapter Positive Steps Program social media page. That way, I can learn and better understand how to use social media to spread helpful information to my community.
In the future, I would like to be a specialized nurse in women's health. I want to work with young women and girls to give them access to tools and information to better care for themselves. I also want to work with young girls and women experiencing PCOS, known as polycystic ovarian syndrome. As someone who has it themselves, I know what it's like to feel unheard as a teenager struggling with it. Social media is the wave of the future, but there is no future if the health of our girls and young women is at risk. I want to use social media to start an online business curated for girls and young women, giving them tools and access to information about mental and physical health, safe sex, sexually transmitted diseases, and studies on PCOS. Computer applications and social media are fantastic tools I want to use and explore in my medical career. I dream of making an app or website connected to other social media platforms to help girls access contraceptives, mental and physical health tools, and valuable information on caring for their bodies and what happens with them. I feel like tweens, teens, and young adults need access to information directed to them.