Carmen Patrick is a former Third Wave board member and a biracial Army brat who calls Georgia home. A former Jane Addams-Andrew Carnegie Fellow and Co-founder of Health Students Taking Action Together, Carmen has been mobilizing students around access to healthcare and gender and racial equality for about eight years.
Her interdisciplinary efforts have included coordination of clinical trials of preventive HIV vaccines, internship with the national pilot of the Friendly Access Maternal and Child Health Program, and tissue engineering research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Carmen received a Bachelor of Science in Biological Resource Engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park and is currently a George N. Stoney Scholar at the Medical College of Georgia. She is committed to improving the health and lives of women through health systems change.
Exciting news from Exhale!
Exhale Executive Director Aspen Baker been selected as one of KQED radio’s (Public Media for Northern CA) 2009 Unsung Local Heroes. Aspen has been awarded this tremendous honor beside four other Bay Area women to celebrate Women’s History Month. By presenting Aspen with this award, KQED pays tribute to her incredible leadership as the founder and Executive Director of Exhale, her vision of a world free from abortion stigma, and her unwavering commitment to creating lasting social change for women worldwide.
In December 2006, Third Wave celebrated 10 years of activism and philanthropy led by young women and trans youth. Learn more about the event… 