My name is Rizza Rivera, and I am a sophomore from Jersey City, New Jersey. I have lived in\u00a0New Jersey for all of my life, but I attended an all-girls boarding school in Sparks Glencoe,\u00a0Maryland for high school. I’m currently pursuing a Health Care Studies major. I have been\u00a0involved in several cultural activities on campus: Ritmo Latino, our Latin dance group; the\u00a0Multicultural Student Council, a planning committee for multicultural admission events; and\u00a0Multicultural Pre-Orientation. I also volunteered with World Pediatric Project, a non-profit that\u00a0provides intensive surgical care to Latin American families who cannot obtain it in their home\u00a0countries. Over the summer, I interned with a non-profit called Wight Foundation, which helps\u00a0inner city minority middle school students to obtain better education opportunities outside of\u00a0New Jersey. This is the same program that I went through when I was in middle school to attend\u00a0my boarding school in Maryland. Because I grew up and live in the inner city and have constant\u00a0support from Wight Foundation, I always possessed a passion for bolstering those who are\u00a0usually underprivileged\u2014and in most cases, the underprivileged are minorities. The clubs and\u00a0positions that I have historically taken\u2014Multicultural Student Council member, Multicultural\u00a0Pre-O advisor, WPP volunteer\u2014have demonstrated my passion for bolstering those who are\u00a0typically undermined and exposing these individuals to opportunity.<\/p>\n
A major in Health Care Studies aligned perfectly with my passions, which is why I decided to\u00a0pursue this major. This geography class, Introduction to Maps and Geovisualization, is a\u00a0requirement for my major, but this class also seemed like one of the more interesting major\u00a0requirement classes because I would be working with a software that is totally unfamiliar to me.\u00a0Geographic Information System is used widely among public health and epidemiological\u00a0professionals, so I am very excited to learn how to use a system that I might be able to use later\u00a0in my professional career. I hope to use GIS in order to research some topics that are very\u00a0important to me, such as minority health, environmental issues, and social problems. I have\u00a0always been curious about how resources\u2014be it medical, academic, or occupational\u2014are\u00a0dependent on place of residency, and I especially want to research why this disparity between\u00a0impoverished areas and affluent communities exists. I have learned in my Health Care classes\u00a0that factors like residence and environment directly affects public health, so I want to expand on\u00a0what I learned and hope to learn more about how public health and geography cross paths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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