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What interests you most about nutrition?
I’m always fascinated by what I learn in my nutrition classes. It's helped me to achieve a positive mindset, and I know that I can use the knowledge I’m gaining to help others.
One of the first classes I took at the UW was Nutrition 200: Nutrition for Today. I was learning things that I could use right after the class ended.
What would you like to do in the future?
Kate Tokareva graduated in 2019 and is attending the UW School of Medicine.
How did you discover public health?
Why did you decide to go back to school to get your bachelors?
I went to a couple of different colleges when I was younger and I failed a lot. I didn’t have a real goal or an educational role model. Now that I have kids of my own – two daughters who are 3 and 6 – it’s really important to me that I become a role model for them.
What did it feel like to get in to the UW?
Deanna Ly graduated in 2019 with a BS, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
Why are you passionate about public health?
Joseph Lee is now an Associate Clinical Systems Analyst at Stanford Health Care
Why did you choose health informatics and health information management?
Finding passion points and public health pathways
While working as a dietitian in San Francisco, Jessica Jones-Smith noticed trends in how social, environmental and economic factors shaped people’s food choices and, in effect, their health.
As a young nursing student attending her required community health nursing class, Betty Bekemeier experienced firsthand the power of a positive role model.