Zac Tabb grew up in the Bay Area, CA and after college left the state for the first time to serve as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Uganda. Inspired by his work with community health workers, he decided to pursue a career in medicine, determined to return to work in resource-restricted settings for his career. He took a year off from medical school in Rhode Island to work as a Fogarty Global Health Fellow in Tanzania during which he focused on adolescents living with HIV and their mental health. He completed training in a Global Child Health Residency pediatrics program in Texas and now is excited to learn from and work alongside communities in New Mexico and Liberia. His guiding principles hinge on health equity and accompaniment making the HEAL Fellowship an ideal fit for his praxis and philosophy. In his free time, he longs to be outdoors, loves writing, and seeks out learning about traditional board games of the communities where he’s worked and lived.