Empowering Ourselves and Others

Abstract

The author reflects on her life and career, and the support she received from mentors, family, and friends. Despite the tragic loss of her parents at a young age, she worked hard to keep herself in her preferred school environment and was accepted into Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Afterwards while attending Vanderbilt for training in the field of infectious diseases and public health, she established professional relationships with mentors who would become highly influential in her life and an inspiration for empowering the next generation of leaders in vaccine research.