LaShyra Nolen

LaShyra “Lash” Nolen is a third-year student at Harvard Medical School where she is serving as student council president of her class, the first documented black woman to hold this leadership position. She is a published author and fervent advocate for social justice whose commentary has been published in the Boston Globe, NEJM, Nature, and HuffPost, among others. Most recently she founded “We Got Us”, a grassroots community empowerment project with the goal of bringing vaccine education and access to Black communities in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Her work has earned her the honor of being named the 2020 National Minority Quality Forum’s youngest “40 under 40 Leader in Minority Health”, a “2020 Young Futurist” by The Root Magazine, a 2021 Boston Celtics “Hero Among Us” Honoree, and the 2021 recipient of the American Medical Student Association's Racial Justice in Medicine Award.