In her final year at Stanford Medical School, scholar Nadine Jawad joins the Imagine A World podcast to reflect on her upbringing, sharing how she tempers cynicism, embraces joy and grief simultaneously, and is working relentlessly to make healthcare accessible to all.

Highlights from the episode:

(6:21) Nadine’s experience growing up in Dearborn and how it contrasted with her college experience attending the University of Michigan
(11:59) How the public policy major at Michigan shaped Nadine’s college experience, and how it related to her aspirations to become a doctor
(18:10) How Nadine tempers and wrestles with cynicism about change, from her nonprofit initiative Books for a Benefit, to her experiences in student government, to working for Amnesty International
(28:12) Nadine’s Imagine a World Statement about the importance of accessible healthcare (check out her video: “Collective Grief, A Cup of Chai and Blood Pressure Medication”)
(32:12) The role that Nadine hopes writing will play in her work in the future, as a way to open hearts and minds and bring about impact the world, and how she thinks about her positionality as a Knight-Hennessy and Rhodes Scholar in putting out writing
(39:52) How Nadine thinks about activism, and balances the reckoning with atrocity and feelings of guiltwith joy
(44:29) The support the Knight-Hennessy community has given to Nadine throughout her medical school experience
(46:54) Nadine’s improbable facts, advice to Knight-Hennessy applicants , and plans for the immediate future!

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