Patrice Zigrossi is originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She went to the University of Notre Dame where she majored in French with a focus on francophone African literature. While at Notre Dame, she also minored in Poverty Studies where she partook in service learning projects working with refugees in Atlanta and with children in Mbour, Senegal. After university, Patrice went to Eastern Virginia Medical School and then returned to her hometown to complete her internal medicine residency at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in the global health track. She spent four months of her residency as a clinical instructor in Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi and is passionate about medical education. She is a certified HIV specialist and divides her clinic time between an HIV primary care clinic and the Birmingham Free Clinic in Pittsburgh. She also did a rotation on the Navajo reservation as an intern in Chinle, Arizona, and returned to the reservation at Tuba City as a third-year resident to assist with the COVID-19 response. She will be working in Tuba City Regional in Tuba City, Arizona and at Muso in Bamako, Mali.