Dahlia Chavez is a medical student at Rush Medical College and a national leader in health equity and medical education reform, with leadership roles in the Latino Medical Student Association and Medical Students with Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses. Her work focuses on advancing disability justice and addressing structural inequities that shape who enters and succeeds in the physician workforce.

She develops programs, research initiatives, and advocacy strategies that bridge medical education and public health outcomes, with the broader goal of designing scalable, systems-level solutions that improve access, representation, and quality of care for historically underserved communities.

Abiola Ayodele is a public health professional specializing in environmental health and occupational safety, with experience in workplace risk assessment, safety program development, and health promotion. He is an active member of the American Society of Safety Professionals and the Occupational Safety Society of Nigeria, and currently contributes to Canadian Occupational Safety magazine.

With three to four years of journalism experience before pivoting into environmental and occupational health and safety, he brings strong skills in research, communication, and storytelling, allowing him to translate complex public health issues into ideas that resonate and inspire action.

Emily Lopez is a senior at UC Santa Cruz double majoring in Global and Community Health and Film and Digital Media, with a minor in Latin American and Latino Studies. She has fallen in love with public health storytelling, especially through forms of media and getting to understand people's lived experiences.

Emily cares deeply about uplifting voices from low-income communities and learning how their experiences shape the way public health is understood and accessed. Her work explores how access to medicine is shaped by structural inequities and how spatial inequality directly impacts health outcomes.

Dr. Paola Acevedo is a primary care clinical pharmacist and diabetes care and education specialist with over a decade of experience advancing chronic disease care in underserved, community-based settings. Her work focuses on improving access to diabetes education, medications, and technology, while partnering with primary care teams to deliver more equitable and empowering, patient-centered care.

She is passionate about reframing chronic disease care by addressing the systemic barriers that shape health outcomes, especially for those in underserved communities, and shifting away from the patient-blaming narrative that has defined how we provide care to vulnerable populations for far too long.

Josephina Lin is a public health professional dedicated to advancing health equity through community-led, creative, and culturally responsive approaches. She serves as a Research, Communications, and Health Equity Associate at Harvard Medical School where she improves access to free, preventive health care for Boston's underresourced communities.

She holds a Master of Science in Media, Medicine, and Health from Harvard Medical School and is currently a Master of Public Health candidate at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Health and Social Behavior with a concentration in Population Mental Health, where her work integrates community-based care, storytelling initiatives, and behavioral health innovation.