December Blog Post

 December Volunteering Hours: 1


I attended a meeting as part of my public health volunteer organization called RESULTS and discussed the importance of getting members of Congress to sign on to the End TB now act, to help decrease the global burden of tuberculosis by providing funding to low-income countries. I have also started planning to meet with the new member of congress who has been recently elected and will be sworn in this coming January.  I will be planning a meeting with Jasmine Crockett, Dallas, Texas district 30 newest representative to describe RESULTS to her team. 

On another note, I successfully completed my American Citizenship Test in early December and will become an American Citizenship once I attend my Naturalization ceremony!

It has been a great semester, I have greatly enjoyed my first semester in this Master's program in Pharmacology and am looking forward to the coming semester starting in January 2023!

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