Madina Agénor

Madina graduated magna cum laude with honors from Brown University with a degree in Gender Studies and Community Health.  While at Brown, she served as the co-director of a student-run dance company, a peer French tutor, an academic advisor to first-year students, and a community health educator.  She wrote an honors thesis on HIV infection in Kenyan women, conducted health workshops with women in Costa Rica, and undertook research on the reproductive health of women of color with the National Women’s Alliance.  Madina has also worked on cardiovascular disease in Black and Latina women and provided assistance to the Latina Health Initiative, a program of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective.  Born in Martinique, Madina has lived in England, Haiti, D.C., and Maryland.

Field placement: Boston Medical Center

Boston, Massachusetts

Policy placement: Food Research & Action Center

Washington, D.C.