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.
The Birth Attendants were featured on Making Contact , a program of the National Radio Project. The segment is called “Lockdown on Life: Stories from Women Behind Bars” and was aired on January 3, 2007. Listen online at radioproject.org Learn more…
In December 2006, Third Wave celebrated 10 years of activism and philanthropy led by young women and trans youth. Learn more about the event… 