Every summer, the FACES Coalition recruits and hires highly motivated college students to serve as our FSMA Student Advisors. Student Advisors assist FSMA staff with the planning, coordination and implementation of the FSMA program activities, including the teaching and facilitation of program workshops. Moreover, Student Advisors serve as mentors to the high school student participants. The FACES Coalition is proud to introduce our 2017 FSMA Student Advisors!
Tyler DePalma-Shields
Tyler is our 2017 Health Career Connection lead intern this summer. He will be entering his last year at UC Berkeley this fall where he majors in English. He leads the Berkeley chapter of Peer Health Exchange, volunteers in the Step Down Unit at Highland Hospital and works for VISUALIZE developing a cervical cancer screening training device for midwives in Ghana. Tyler plans on going to medical school in the near future to pursue his ultimate goal of working for Doctors Without Borders. Read more about Tyler.
Pricella Guzman
Pricella is a recent graduate of Occidental College in Los Ángeles where she majored in Sociology and minored in Public Health. She plans to pursue a career in nursing and midwifery. Pricella has a passion for health care and health education. She has volunteered at hospitals, tutored children and worked in health care settings. In her free time, she enjoys reading books, traveling and visiting her hometown of Chicago.
Julius Orejudos
Odessa Garay
Coby Muchin
Coby graduated from Oakland Technical High school in 2016 and is currently a sophomore Nursing student at UMass Amherst. In the future, he hopes to become a pediatric nurse helping underprivileged children in Oakland. Coby is an alumnus of the FACES Summer Medical Academy Class of 2015.