Bianca is an international student from India, pursuing a double major in Public Health and Anthropology at UC Berkeley. During her gap-year, Bianca had the opportunity to work alongside and learn from patients and caregivers in settings devoted to HIV/AIDS research and community support in Ghana, Kenya, Colombia and Ecuador. Last summer she served as an intern at México’s Centros de Integración Juvenil in Tampico, a substance abuse counseling, care and government outreach initiative, arranging conversational forums in high schools on behalf of the centros. She serves as a research assistant at UCSF’s Substance Abuse Research Program and as a ‘caseworker’ at Suitcase Clinic’s Youth & LGBTQ+ space, advocating for those housing insecure in Berkeley.