I grew up in a very small town in New Hampshire called Grantham. I did classical ballet growing up and continued throughout high school and college at the University of Richmond. I graduated from UR in 2019 with a degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and minors in Healthcare Studies and Dance. Following graduation I did my gap year in Pittsburgh working as a patient care navigator at the Birmingham Free Clinic through an AmeriCorps program called National Health Corps. The clinic itself was amazing and the people I worked with were even better. They were so inspiring and through this experience is when I really started to get excited about the impact that physicians could have on individuals that have been marginalized by the healthcare system and other intersecting systems. It’s also when I realized that primary care physicians in particular are in the privileged position of bearing witness to these stories and having the opportunity to positively change the systems that have caused so much harm and oppression. At Duke, in addition to PCLT, I’m very involved in WellNest Housing Support program, which is a branch of Root Causes. In my first year I also participated in the Duke HealthCARES program, Holton clinic, the Moral Movements in Medicine Elective, Cancer Care Experience, Duke WC4BL, the SLW music video, and SFS. Clinically I’m interested in family medicine, internal medicine, and psychiatry or some combination of those specialties. I’m passionate about social policy and health equity especially for the houseless population and the incarcerated population or those who have recently been in contact with the criminal legal system. I can be reached at madeline.brown@duke.edu if you have questions regarding the PCLT program