Straight Talk

Lisandra Ochoa, MS ’17, CMS ’22, connects with fellow Latinx community members on birth control. By Sara Skoog

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As someone who loves teaching, Lisandra Ochoa, MS ’17, CMS ’22, is getting a pulse on the community and using her ethnicity and bilingualism to educate Latinx youth on topics related to health.

Ms. Ochoa brainstormed with her mentor, Hector Rasgado-Flores, PhD — director of diversity, outreach and success and professor of physiology and biophysics — on a community project required for receiving a scholarship, and they decided on a safe-sex and birth-control presentation for students.