Katherine Aparicio is from South San Francisco, California. She obtained a bachelor’s degree at UC Berkeley in 1997. She then went to obtain a Holistic Health certification from San Francisco State University. She has an Osteopathic Medical Degree from Touro University in Vallejo, California and completed her Family Medicine residency at the University of Arizona. She currently works as a medical provider for Pascua site at El Rio Community Health Center in Tucson Arizona. Her interests are integrative medicine, native health, and health equity.