Congratulations to Kisna Prado, recipient of the 2024 Exceptional Student Award from the Washington State Public Health Association (WSPHA)! Prado was honored at WSPHA’s annual conference in October for her contributions to improving the public’s health in Washington state.
Prado is a research coordinator at the Center for Anti-Racism and Community Health (ARCH) and a 2024 graduate of the University of Washington School of Public Health's Community Oriented Public Health Practice Master of Public Health program.
She is a first-generation daughter of Central American immigrants from Nicaragua and Costa Rica and grew up in a predominately Mexican and Central American immigrant community in Southern California. As a bilingual, Latina public health professional, she grounds herself in the experiences of immigrant, working class communities like her own and is dedicated to centering the voices of those that have been historically marginalized and silenced.
Prado is passionate about health equity research, Latine health issues, and applying community based participatory research and anti-racism principles to her work.