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By: Amy Gonzalez, MPH As a first-generation Latina student, my journey into public health was anything but easy. I still remember finishing hospital night shifts as a medical scribe, leaving at 1:00 am, and curling up to sleep in the backseat of my car outside the university before my 8 a.m. classes. Those moments of exhaustion and uncertainty could have defined me, but they didn’t. Instead, they became the foundation of my resilience and my belief that perseverance creates o

Motherhood in San Diego: where white noise machines blend with neighbors’ reggaetón

I’m at a strange point right now because in my adult life I have been met with three bouts of extreme burnout and I am living one of...