Jessica P. Cerdeña, MD, PhD

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Yale White Coats 4 Black Lives Die-in – December 10, 2014

Organizer Partnering with student leaders dozens of medical schools across the U.S., I co-led the 70 students, faculty, and staff that participated in the Yale School of Medicine White Coats 4 Black Lives die-in. Yale medical students hold ‘die-in’ to protest race, gender discrimination, New Haven RegisterYale Medical School students don white coats for die-in …

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Yale Student National Medical Association / Latino Medical Student Association

Co-President, 2015-16 Yale SNMA & LMSA Facebook page@YaleSNMA_LMSA As SNMA/LMSA Co-President, I coordinated service and social justice events in support of communities of color both at Yale School of Medicine and in the city of New Haven. Our chapter hosted the 2015 SNMA Region VII Conference, which took place at YSM on Saturday, October 17th …

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NextYSM

Co-Founder and Student Activist, 2015-2021 NextYSM Demands Building on nationwide protests on university campuses—including the Black women-led coalition, NextYale—Yale medical students disrupted town halls and presented the administration with demands for anti-oppression in 2015, renewing them in 2020.

ContraCOVID

Connecticut State Leader, 2020-2021 ContraCOVID.com ContraCOVID provides multilingual information about public health measures and social services to support migrant and limited English proficiency families and individuals through the COVID-19 pandemic.