Evelyn Navarrete Gomez is a first-generation Latina growing up in City Heights, a San Diego suburb. Evelyn has a passion to fight towards health equity in medically underserved communities and to pursue the medical field to represent and take up space. Evelyn is a determined, compassionate, and open-minded, high-achieving student who will attend UCLA University double-majoring in Chicano/a Studies and Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, and then proceed on to Medical School to become a family doctor serving an underserved area, advocating, and supporting health policy that helps address health disparities. Watch this energetic discussion between Evelyn and Illumina scientist Dr. Janina Jeff on what the future holds for STEM Scholars like Evelyn. Subscribe to the Illumina video channel http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=IlluminaInc A global genomics leader, Illumina provides comprehensive next-generation sequencing solutions to the research, clinical, and applied markets. Illumina technology is responsible for generating more than 90% of the world’s sequencing data.* Through collaborative innovation, Illumina is fueling groundbreaking advancements in oncology, reproductive health, genetic disease, microbiology, agriculture, forensic science, and beyond. *Data calculations on file. Illumina, Inc., 2015. View customer spotlight videos https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKRu7cmBQlajfheLzgbI4S7xBn7IDbt79 View Illumina webinars https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKRu7cmBQlahpXlnrrXlQw9itVJ8yHwUZ View Illumina product videos https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKRu7cmBQlaj6YuZmkfxZcT9twqDgP2Xd View Illumina support videos https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKRu7cmBQlajbm2KGsICWb-JOnusJfYvM Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/illuminainc LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/illu... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/illuminainc/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/illumina #Genomics #GenomeEra #Illumina #SD2 #DiversityinSTEM #SanDiegoSquared #BetterHumanHealth #CSR #Partnerships #IGF #IlluminaGenomicsForum #LightboxConversations