Bio--

Raquel Sofia Sandoval is from Cali, Colombia and immigrated to the US in 2001. She graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 2016 with BA in Studio Arts and BS in Natural Sciences. After graduation, Raquel Sofia was a 2016-2017 Coro Fellow in Public Affairs, a national leadership development program with a focus on equity and capacity-building across different systems including health, education, and economic development. As a Coro Fellow, she worked as a grant-writer for an arts nonprofit and analyzed a workforce development program developed by the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, the largest hospital system in Pennsylvania. Currently, she is a fourth year MD/MPP student at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Kennedy School as well as a 2020-2021 Zuckerman Fellow at the Center for Public Leadership. She plans to go into primary care and to care for predominantly Latinx patients.