“Raised in the Bronx by immigrants from Peru and Pakistan, Hashmi is motivated to correct the disparities in health care, food and housing she witnessed first-hand in her community. Today she is putting her passion for equity to work as a Michael Meng fellow in concert with her master’s degree studies. She helped her family make ends meet during high school and college, achieved a BS in public health at Hunter College, served as a research assistant at the Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging and is currently a Pipeline to Preparedness fellow at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Office of Emergency Preparedness and Response. She completed FEMA courses IS-100.c, IS-200.c, IS-700.b, IS-800.d, IS-909, and the FEMA health sector emergency preparedness distance learning. She received the COVID-19 contact tracing certificate from Johns Hopkins.”