Meet Our 2017 FACES Summer Medical Academy Student Advisors

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

Julius is a FACES for the Future alumnus Class of 2009. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Integrative Biology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2013. He plans to pursue a career in health as a family physician and is currently applying to medical school. He also works part-time as an emergency medical technician. He believes FSMA is his opportunity to show the next generation of students it is possible to prevail through the hardships.

Odessa Garay

Odessa is a fourth year student at San Francisco State University where she majors in biology. She is a first generation college student. She plans to apply to medical school and aspires to become a pediatric oncologist. She is a Co- Founder of the GlobeMed chapter at SFSU, and has interests in public health and health equity.

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.