Naa Asheley Afua Adowaa Ashitey is a Chicago-born writer and aspiring physician-scientist. She graduated with honors in Creative Writing and a minor in Biological Sciences from the University of Chicago in 2021 and later conducted cancer immunology research as a PROPEL Post-Bacc Scholar at the University of California, San Francisco.
She is now an MD-PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, studying cancer immunology and autoimmunity through systems immunology. She is passionate about bridging the humanities and STEM and advancing equity for underrepresented students in academia.
Leadership
- Equity & Access Advocate
- Research Leader
- Interdisciplinary Advocate
