Emily Velasquez
2026-2028 Voyager Scholarship Recipient
Emily Velasquez is dedicated to addressing generational health disparities and ensuring culturally and linguistically accessible care in under-resourced communities. This passion is grounded in her experiences helping her family navigate language and cultural barriers in health care and in her work as a Spanish interpreter and patient health navigator at free clinics in San Jose, California.
Hometown : North Providence, RI
Institution : Stanford University
Major : Human Biology
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The Obama-Chesky Scholarship for Public Service helps students who have a passion for helping others, experience serving in or building community, and an expansive view of what’s possible through public service.
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