Jennifer Nguyen, she/her

Class of 2025Jennifer Nguyen

jennifer.nguyen@duke.edu
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Jennifer Nguyen was born in Vietnam and raised in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. In 2021, she worked as a research assistant for the Covid-19 Vaccine Equity Project, examining ethnic communities’ responses to past vaccine campaigns to advise the WHO’s COVAX campaign on vaccinating marginalized populations. For the past year, she has been a research intern for a Bass Connections project, aiming to assess how a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services hypertension policy impacts health disparities in Durham. She is continuing this role for the 2023-2024 school year as well. Seeking to work with policy that speaks to her immigrant heritage, she is currently the Policy and Communications intern for the Presidents’ Alliance, a coalition advocating for undocumented, international, and refugee students in higher education. With her MPP, she hopes to dismantle inequities embedded in existing policy. In her free time, she enjoys going to trivia, thrifting, and watching TV/movies.

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