Stories For Change
I served as EIC of Synapse from Fall 2016 to Summer 2019. I wanted to serve as the EIC because I’m passionate about science communication and wanted to help other students find their voice and hone their writing skills.
This Date in UCSF History: LGBTQI Health Forum A Success
[Originally published in Synapse on April 5, 2012.] Over 200 students and community members flocked to a two-day UCSF LGBTQI...
This is a Sick Note
This is a sick note. A sick note for a nation that is perpetually tired. Tired because we have been...
Toward Justice: An Urgent Appeal for A Ceasefire in Gaza
In the war-torn town of Gaza, Palestine, where the echoes of desperate pleas for a ceasefire reverberate through the rubble-filled...
This Date in UCSF History: Empowering Nurses
[Originally published in Synapse on March 20, 1974.] Wilma Scott Heide, the first nurse to be elected national president of...
Beyond Judgment: Empathy as the Antidote in the Opioid Crisis
A place where individuals can inject drugs with either in-person or virtual supervision may sound like a dystopian reality, but...
This Date in UCSF History: Anti-LGBTQ Law Passes
[Originally published on March 9, 2000.] As many people in the community had anticipated, Proposition 22, which limited the definition...
This Date in UCSF History: A Hopeful Era for Women
[Originally published in Synapse on March 5, 1990.] We live in an exciting time. Throughout the world, walls we once...
Protecting Medication Abortion is Reproductive Justice
The next attack on abortion rights in the United States threatens far-reaching and drastic consequences on the state of reproductive...
My Experience as a Black Man and Prospective Juror In San Francisco’s Hallowed Halls of Justice
It was a rainy and blustery Tuesday morning. Clutching a white, large-canopied umbrella, with rainwater splashing around my footsteps, I...