About the Founders
Co-Founders: Joana Antonio and Marisol Chavez
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Our Stories
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Joana's Story
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Hi, my name is Joana Antonio and I am high school senior student from Los Angeles, California.
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The reasons why I made MedLang stem from my love for medicine and learning languages. That led me to research how those two ideas I love so much, connected. After doing thorough research, I discovered how difficult it was to find reliable resources, and in a variety of languages available. Within those research papers and articles I found how prominent issues like language barriers have indirectly and directly impacted different fields such as the sciences and the medical field. Personally, within my own community I also noticed that people weren't well informed of current events and/or did not know what to do because of how misinterpreted the information was. All this motivated me to create MedLang.
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With MedLang, I'm determined to provide credible information about medicine in a variety of languages in one place, inspire other people to learn new languages, and help create a diverse community online who can communicate to one another about topics they love-- medicine or not.
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Personally, I'm fluent in English and Spanish. To be quite honest, there will be times when I butcher my Spanish, but I always put my energy to learn from it! Plus, I also have my trusted partner Marisol to help me through my Spanish and with MedLang!
Currently, I'm also learning ASL and Japanese.
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If you have any questions about MedLang, you can send an email to MedLang's official email!
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Marisol's Story
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Hello world, I'm Marisol Chavez and I am a high school senior student from Los Angeles, California. I was brought onto this project by my fellow partner Joana. Being able to give back to our community is one of my greatest passions and this is a project I strongly believe can help with that. Even if it reaches and helps one person, I believe that already is impact.
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A few facts about me are I love dogs, I aspire to travel one day (preferably Greece, Iceland, or the Faroe Islands), I enjoy painting, drawing and love listening to music. I can't wait to see what happens with this project and hopefully it turns out the way we hope. :)
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