Maame-Owusua Boateng is a proud child of Ghanaian immigrants. She holds an Associate Degree in General Studies from Northern Virginia Community College, a Bachelor of Science from Virginia Tech in Clinical Neuroscience with a minor in Medicine and Society, and has just recently completed her Master of Public Health at Yale School of Public Health in Social and Behavioral Sciences with concentrations in Global Health and US Health and Justice. She is working as a postgraduate assistant for the lab. She has a passion for cultural humility in medicine, eliminating race-based medicine, and studying anti-Blackness and medical mistrust, and examining race disparities in neurology and neuroscience. She hopes to get an MD/PhD in medical anthropology or sociology to combine both science and social sciences in the care she gives. Her long-term goal is to become a medical doctor and give back to her home country, Ghana, while also giving care in the United States. She wants to build a clinic in Ghana and provide care to the community.

Fun fact: Maame has a skill of finding good prices and deals. She enjoys thrifting and second-hand shopping!