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Peer Health Educator

Liliana Madrid Larrañaga ’26 (she/her) is a kinesiology major and public health minor on the pre-health track from Albuquerque, New Mexico. As a woman of color with profound hearing loss, she is passionate about improving health equity and strives to provide for those underrepresented in health care. She has worked closely with the Albuquerque Student Health Advisory Council and the New Mexico Alliance for School-Based Health Care for many years to identify and address barriers to accessing healthcare in low-income and rural areas across New Mexico. At ÐÇ¿ÕÎÞÏÞ´«Ã½, Liliana has interned with Essential Access Health, where she was certified as a family planning health worker, providing equitable reproductive health care to her community. Her favorite part of being a peer health educator is presenting about Imposter Syndrome to POC and low-income students in the larger ÐÇ¿ÕÎÞÏÞ´«Ã½ community and leading Dance & Destress workshops. She plans to pursue a career as a midwife and advocate for the rights of Indigenous women and others underrepresented in rural New Mexico.