Young Innovator in Behavioral Health Awardee

Magda is a current first-year medical student at the David Geffen School of Medicine University of California-Los Angeles. She hopes to continue her advocacy work on local and national scales to improve student mental health, especially in the medical field, and to provide culturally responsive and attuned healthcare to the diverse patient populations of the greater Los Angeles area. Her past experiences include founding and operating a 501(c)(3) fiscally sponsored nonprofit, General Intelligences, which focuses on the academic and socio-emotional needs of historically underrepresented students, more than a dozen first-author peer-reviewed publications, technology-facilitated gender-based violence research and foreign policy advocacy with the US Department of State Secretary's Office of Global and Women's Issues, caregiver mental health via an internship at the American Medical Women's Association and health literacy as a United Nations Millennium Fellow.