Kene Orakwue, MPH, is a Health Services Research, Policy & Administration doctoral student at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. She received her MPH with a concentration in Health Policy & Management, her B.S. in Public Health Sciences with a focus area in Global Women’s Health, and a certificate in Reproductive Health, Rights & Justice from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She studies how our social structures and policies deny or grant access to, and quality of, health for certain populations.