The Grind Never Stops: A First-Generation Latina in Public Health
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 opportunity. When...