Kate Lewandowski

Kate Lewandowski was born at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Eighteen years later, she indulged her salmon-like tendency to return to her place of birth, though she neither spawned nor died during her time as a Yale undergraduate. After a year of being premed, Kate decided to pursue a career in public health, guided by her desire to improve the health care of millions of people and a visceral aversion to the idea of another semester of organic chemistry. During her senior year, she somehow convinced the staff of a Washington, D.C.-based health care research firm that her extensive technical theatre experience was applicable in the real world. As a result, Kate graduated from Yale with a degree in History of Science, History of Medicine and a job that does not include asking “Would you like fries with that?” She now earns her rent and beer money as a researcher, answering hospital administrators’ burning questions and Googling medical acronyms she doesn’t recognize.

Kate enjoys running to D.C. landmarks, seeing live theatre and music, talking too loudly in bars about the evolutions of medical education and the American hospital, baking, and planning for the day she dusts off her power tools and builds a bar in her apartment. She dreams of someday reforming the American health care system and then parlaying her success into a second career as either a biographer or a Food Network chef.