Vanessa Torres, PhD candidate in the Department of Health Services at UW’s School of Public Health and affiliate student of the Center, was featured in our UW partner GO-MAP’s “Humans of GO-MAP” series: http://www.facebook.com/Latinocenterforhealth/posts/1909720155795036?notif_id=1560894433752180¬if_t=. Vanessa grew up in Riverside, CA and pursued her undergraduate studies in Berkeley. The sharp contrast between the two, she says, is what first inspired her to pursue a career in Latinx health disparities research. Her doctoral thesis focuses on reducing unhealthy alcohol use among Latino immigrant men.