Contributing Writer
University of California Riverside School of Medicine
Yasmine Suliman is a first-year medical student at the University of California Riverside School of Medicine in Riverside, CA class of 2023. In 2018, she graduated from Brown University with a Bachelor of Arts in health and human biology. She enjoys spending time with family and friends, cooking and reading. After graduating from medical school, Yasmine would like to pursue a career in pediatrics.
Sameera was an Iraqi refugee who had recently arrived from Tijuana, Mexico. She fled violence from what seemed like every corner of the globe, starting with Iraq, then to Yemen, Brazil, Mexico, and now to a small, bare and cold cell somewhere in southern California.
The room is unassuming from the outside. It’s a tiny space not much larger than a storage closet tucked into an office in the school of public health. I do my usual clinic routine in reverse: notebook pulled out of pocket and white coat slipped off and left outside.
Writer-in-Training
Emory University School of Medicine
Zaynah Alam is a member of the Class of 2021 at Emory University School of Medicine. She grew up in Chapel Hill, NC and has a BS in Neuroscience from Duke University. Her interests include science fiction, health as a human right, and eating at every pho restaurant in the city of Atlanta.
