Briana (Bri) Christophers, PhD is a sixth-year MD-PhD student at the Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan Kettering Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program in New York City. She graduated from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts in Molecular Biology in 2017. Bri earned her PhD in Biology in 2024 for her work on neuromuscular changes in a Drosophila model of nemaline myopathy in the Baylies Lab. Bri has also published various articles in the areas of physician-scientist training and developmental biology. She continues to bring together her passion for scientific discovery and advocacy as a leader of the Tri-I’s Association of Diverse Physician-Scientists in Training (ADePT) and of the #LatinasInMedicine Twitter community. She also served as chair of APSA’s Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) committee from 2021-2023 and was recognized with the APSA Presidential Service Award in 2023. Bri aims to pursue a career as a pediatrician-scientist, serving the ‘little-ist’ of patients and conducting developmental biology research. Follow her reflections on Twitter: @BriChristophers.

I acknowledge that my dual degree program is located on the ancestral lands of the Lenni-Lenape [https://native-land.ca/].