Michaela Whitelaw

Michaela Whitelaw is a 4th year medical student at Emory. Prior to medical school she was an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer in Philadelphia then spent two years in the Peace Corps Dominican Republic as a Community Health Promoter.

Upon returning to the U.S., she worked part time at a medical legal partnership serving first-time mothers, worked as a Family Services Case Aid with World Pediatric Project and volunteered with a Latinx community health clinic in Philadelphia. Most recently she studied for an MPH in U.S. health policy and focused her thesis on menstrual equity. She’s passionate about incorporating medicine, advocacy, policy and education to address promote health equity and social justice.