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Routes Scholars Program
Mission: To provide NEU students who are traditionally under-represented in environmental health sciences with the opportunity to gain hands-on paid research experience and one-on-one mentoring.
http://www.northeastern.edu/routes/
Routes Scholar: Lola Akingbade
My name Ololade Akingbade, and I am a fourth year Behavioral Neuroscience major and sociology minor. I was born in Nigeria and raised in New Jersey. I’ve always had an interest in the sciences growing up, particularly biology and epigenetics when I came to college. As I spent more time learning about social justice and historical inequity, I’ve taken on experiences centered on race, using academic opportunities to learn more about contested spaces of identity and justice. Such opportunities include traveling to Selma AL on a civil rights service trip, Ferguson, MO on a race and citizenship research fellowship, and an urban studies program to Cape Town South Africa. When it comes to connecting my various passions, I see health as a human right. What urged me to explore environmental health through this coop was learning of the environmental injustices in Flint Michigan with the water crisis, seeing how racial disparities intersect with very real health implications globally. I am interested in learning more about air pollution and its links to social indicators such as race, citizenship, and housing status. I look to pursue a career in the sociomedical sciences as a community physician and researcher.
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