Leanne Marcotrigiano is originally from Central Pennsylvania. She majored in Biology and Sociology at Franklin & Marshall College, where she developed an interest in public health and race relations. After college, she worked for a small nonprofit in Portland, ME, where she helped study an intervention to improve correction officers’ treatment of mentally ill prisoners. While at Jefferson Medical College, she joined Physicians for Social Responsibility and studied local and international programs that promote healthy communities. As a medical student, Leanne twice traveled to Nicaragua, where she volunteered at a hospital in Jinotepe. Her time in Nicaragua confirmed her commitment to family medicine and to caring for Latinos. Leanne chose to train at the Greater Lawrence Family Health Center, a FQHC in a largely Latino community in northern Massachusetts. During residency, Leanne was grateful to work with seasoned global health physicians in Nicaragua, Ghana and Guatemala. She also completed Harvard’s Global Mental Health: Trauma and Recovery Certificate Program and helped establish a program that recruits Lawrence women to serve as birth companions (doulas). She admires the thoughtful and collaborative HEAL approach to global health and is excited to become part of the HEAL family. Leanne was a fellow who served at Lifelong Medical Center in Oakland, California and at Compañeros en Salud in Mexico.