Helen Tejada is a master’s student at the Yale School of Public Health specializing in Health Care Management. She is originally from Sleepy Hollow, NY and went to Yale College (Hopper ’23.5), where she graduated with a B.S. in MCDB and an Advanced Language Certificate in Spanish. During undergrad, she was involved in Hopper as Fro-Co and on the Hopper College Council and through La Casa through the Dominican Students Association. She is a proud first generation college student and Dominican-American.
Before graduate school, Helen was a postgraduate researcher at the Yale School of Medicine, where her work focused on understanding the how the TUG protein interacts with the early secretory pathway.
In her free time, Helen enjoys to practice yoga, drink tea, and have a good laugh with friends.