Kimberly Cardenas

About Kimberly:

Kimberly (she/her) is a first generation, low income, latinx daughter of Mexican immigrants from Richmond, California. She is a first year undergraduate student at Stanford University, who is on a pre-med track and majoring in Human Biology with a concentration in Public Health Policy. She is heavily invested in health equity, and wants to support low-income communities of color – like her own. She dreams of becoming a surgeon to further increase Latinx women representation in medicine and the STEM field. Kimberly is currently involved in various campus organizations like Stanford Synapse (who assist brain trauma/injury patients in recovery), Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science, Community Health Equity, Frosh Scholar Program, and the First-Generation and Low-income Community. Additionally, she is training to become a co-lead instructor  in the Fall for the Frosh 101 course that mentors freshmen at Stanford. She is also volunteering as a lab assistant through Telepath, at Arbor Free Clinic. In the summer, she will be a full-time researcher for the Stanford Mordecai Lab conducting disease research. 

Accolades

Scholarships/Awards

• Full Ride to Stanford University

• College is Real Scholarship Recipient 

• Edwin J. Gregson Foundation Scholarship Recipient

• Richmond Podcast Scholarship Recipient

• Hispanic Scholarship Fund Scholar

• Questbridge Scholar

• COVID-19 Prevention Youth/ Young Adult Ambassador 

• 2021 KP LAUNCH Internship 

• Tobacco Prevention Program Policy Internship

• Cardinal Free Clinics Lab Assistant 

• Stanford Frosh 101 Course Co-lead

• Stanford 2022 Biology Summer Undergraduate Research Program (B-SURP)