Maryshe (Muh-ray-shuh) Zietsman is an MD-PhD student and a PHR-BCM Human Rights and Asylum Clinic executive board member. She spent most of her childhood in College Station, Texas. After graduating high school, she went to The University of Texas at Austin, where she earned a Bachelor of Science and Arts in Biology, with a minor in Spanish. Graduating a semester early, she left the heat of Texas behind to go to Chicago where she worked as a research associate in the Department of Occupational Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago. When Maryshe received the news that she was accepted at Baylor College of Medicine, she quickly returned to Texas to begin medical school in Fall 2018. While working on her MD-PhD, Maryshe’s interest in PHR-BCM was sparked when she attended the PHR-BCM Forensic Evaluation Training. She started volunteering as a medical student scribe and was later appointed to the executive board of the clinic where she helps to coordinate between attorneys, clients, and evaluators to organize forensic evaluations for asylum seekers. She hopes to continue collaborating with her current co-members and community partners to expand the organization’s reach and to use these valuable advocacy skills in her future career as an Ob-Gyn physician-scientist.