Jade Smith is a current first year medical student at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts before graduating from Dartmouth College in 2019 with degrees in neuroscience and philosophy. With a passion for global health and medical ethics, Jade then moved to the Netherlands on a research fellowship to study barriers to medical care for Turkish and Moroccan refugees with dementia. While there, she taught English to two refugees who had received asylum in the Netherlands, thereby learning about the asylum-seeking process and the need for continued advocacy for refugee populations.

She continues working for health equity as treasurer of the Health Equity Group at Feinberg School of Medicine and looks forward to addressing other needs of the refugee community as a member of the YPB. Jade also enjoys drawing, woodworking, volleyball, rock climbing and anything that involves animals.