Romany Redman grew up in Spokane, Washington. She has a bachelor’s degree in Russian and lived in Siberia for two years working with a street outreach harm reduction program and later in a regional Tuberculosis hospital. After returning to the US, she completed her medical school training at the University of Colorado where she was a part of the urban underserved track and had the opportunity to work on community-based participatory research with the fine team at C-STAHR (Community and Students Together Against Healthcare Racism). C-STAHR develops interventions to decrease the effects of discrimination in clinical settings. Also while in Colorado, Romany began working with immigrant and refugee home visiting programs. She then moved to Salt Lake City for combined Internal Medicine-Pediatrics residency at the University of Utah. In residency, she partnered with a local resettlement agency to grow health promotion home visiting programs with newly resettled refugee families. Romany loves nordic skiing, hiking, contra dancing, postcrossing, and jamming at Celtic music sessions with her fiddle. She even played fiddle in one of the first Siberian Irish pub bands before moving back stateside for medical school.