Research Symposium

BIO

My educational goal is to get a bachelor's in biomedical sciences, minor in Spanish, a master's in genetic counseling, and lastly pass a certificate program by the American Board of Genetic Counseling to enter my career goal of becoming a genetic counselor. Whilst pursuing my career goals in becoming a genetic counselor, I would like to have kids, travel when I can, and continue with my hobbies and passions, such as art, specifically oil and acrylic painting, and learn a new language, specifically Spanish. Being a genetic counselor is like being a psychologist of people's DNA. I hope to help people make informed decisions about their possible future reproduction and health risks. It can be common and understandable that medical professionals, after a decade of education in science and math, sometimes are detached in the way they go about patient care. I want to be able to have a good relationship with my patients, especially because genetic counselors can commonly have recurring ones. I would like my office to serve as a comfortable place where difficult and intimate conversations about health can come easily. Moreover, there aren’t many offices for genetic counseling in the southeast, and the opportunity of one day owning one is an ideal that is both feasible and within reach, along with something that I am excited to work towards in the future.

Revealing Sundown America: The Extrapolation of Historical Sundown Datasets Using a Novel Propensity Score Application

Abstract

Sundown towns, by conventional definition, are historical communities that prohibited many non-White racial groups (and especially Black people), residency and often any entry at all. However, seminal research on sundown communities suggests that many sundown-like communities exist, without being labeled as sundown in historical records (Loewen 2018). Moreover, an amassing theoretical perspective—path dependence (Acharya et al. 2018)—has increasingly provided evidence supporting the
notion that America’s racial past has followed into the
present.

Keywords: Modern Day Sundown towns