Tijesunimi Borode

Tijesunimi studied Neuroscience and Global Health & Health Policy at Harvard College, where she served as the Community Liaison and President of the Harvard College Nigerian Students Association and as the co-mentorship chair of the Harvard Undergraduate Black Premedical Society. For her senior thesis, she studied the lifelong physiological manifestation of childhood trauma exposure. During her college career, she also served as a fellow within Fenway Health’s Getting to Zero coalition, with the goal of developing an implementation guide to equip school administration with relevant tools to implement the provisions of the Healthy Youth Act while empowering youth voices.