Hi! My name is Devika, and I'm a designer and public health researcher, originally from New Jersey, recently living in San Francisco, and now a medical student at Penn State University, College of Medicine. 

​

​

I studied product design engineering before pivoting to focus my career on healthcare disparities research (via a Master’s degree in Community Health and Prevention Research). For the past five years, I was the Design Manager, and then Design Director at The Better Lab, an academic research laboratory that utilizes human-centered design to address vexing healthcare challenges facing disadvantaged patient populations in San Francisco and beyond. 

• Applying to graduate school (engineering, public health, medicine specifically!)
• Building a portfolio that tells a compelling story, and let’s you shine!
• Presenting your best self in interviews
• Working at the intersection of design, technology and social impact

​

​

• Finding your "passion"
• Preventing and overcoming burn-out
• Navigating the transition from being a first-generation college student and low-income, to being a college grad and no longer low-income
• Medical school - is it the right fit, what it’s like, and how to apply
• Navigating long-distance relationships in a healthy way!

​

​

• Compassionate
• Goal-driven
• Energetic