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Michael Anthony McClurkin - President Kia Byrd - Vice President Kyle Renard Burton - Treasurer George Romar - Secretary Chidi Akusobi - Program Coordinator Chlo é Powell - Program Coordinator David Osayande - Pipeline Coordinator Kwadwo Owuso-Boaitey - Pipeline Coordinator Debra Whorms -...

Chidi Akusobi wa s born in Nigeria and immigrated to the Bronx at the age of 2. He attended Yale University, where he majored in Biology, specializing in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. While at Yale, he was involved with several STEM education and outreach programs. He also conducted research for...

Kia Byrd is a current MS1 in the New Pathway program and native of Jackson, Mississippi. In May 2014, she received a BS degree in biology from the illustrious Howard University. A proud Bison, Kia was active in a number of organizations on Howard’s campus, including America’s Promise—a mentoring...

David Osayande is a current first year medical student in the New Pathway Program. His family is Nigerian, but he was born in Germany and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He attended New York University as a HEOP Scholar and graduated with a B.S. in Chemistry in 2013. During his time at NYU, he taught...

George attended Rice University where he was a student in the School of Humanities and majored in Asian Studies. During his undergraduate studies, George served as a member of Rice’s Student Ambassador corps and gave tours and college presentations to over 2,500 young student visitors. He completed...

Chloé Powell is a 1 st year medical student in the New Pathway Program at Harvard Medical School. A native of Detroit, Michigan, she received her BSE in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan in 2012. Before matriculating to HMS, she worked as a research assistant for one year at the...

Kwadwo is a first year MD-PhD student in HST. He's originally from Ghana, in West Africa, but grew up in Ellicott City, Maryland. His first name means "born on Monday", and so unsurprisingly he was born on a Monday. He graduated from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2014 with degrees...

Otana Jakpor is a first-year medical student in the New Pathway program. She was born and raised in Riverside, California, where seeing the effects of air pollution in her community sparked a passion for environmental health research and advocacy. Though environmental health is still her focus...

Michael Anthony McClurkin graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2013. In 2011, Michael attended the Summer Medical and Dental Education Program at Yale School of Medicine where he solidified his decision to pursue medicine. In 2012, Michael returned to Yale School of Medicine...

Kyle Renard Burton was born in St. Louis, Missouri before moving to Illinois for high school attendance outside of Scott Air Force Base. In 2010, Kyle enrolled at Howard University (HU) in Washington, DC where, among other things, he conducted neurophysiology/biophysics research at HU College of...