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About Me: Alice Wei

Hi, my name's is Alice Wei, and I'm a freshman majoring in Biochemistry. Currently, I am on the pre-med track with hopes of ultimately pursuing medical research in the field of neuroscience. Urban education challenges is a relatively new topic that I've begun to learn about, but inequalities and discrepancies in the education system has been a topic of interest to me for a long time. I think that this will be a unique opportunity to immerse ourselves in the environment of a charter school, and I'm really excited to interact with these students, share my own experiences with them, and learn more the major current issues they face from the experts at the Urban Education Institute.

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