Annah Kuriakose, M.D. graduated from New York Medical College, but her path into medicine was peppered with many other interests and endeavors. She received a BA in Anthropology from Amherst College, where she wrote her senior thesis on marriage patterns among second-generation South Asians in the US. After college, she moved to the South to earn a Master’s in Education from the University of Mississippi and spend two years teaching in a rural, low-income high school in the Mississippi Delta. She then took her interest in adolescents and racial/socioeconomic disparities to medical school, with a particular interest in pediatrics and public health. After completing med school, she deferred residency to teach in an urban public school district in New Jersey. She is heavily involved with the New Jersey chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), and is an active member of her Indian Orthodox church. She regularly looks for ways to combine her skills and interests in education, health, culture, and community work