Interview with Naima Bridges : Alumni Stories
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Naima Bridges (BS Human Biology, 2006) discusses growing up in the Bay Area, going to Castilleja School, and her decision to attend Stanford. She speaks about joining Everyday People (an a cappella group), her involvement with the Stanford Gospel Choir, and student activities like Full Moon on the Quad and Sunday Flicks. Bridges recalls her involvement with the Student National Medical Association (SNMA, an African American pre-med group), living in Ujamaa, and working as a peer health educator. Lastly, she speaks about studying Human Biology with a concentration on African and African American health and serving as an African Services Fellow in Tanzania through the Haas Center after graduating.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Extent | 1 text file |
| Place | Stanford (Calif.) |
| Publisher | Stanford Historical Society |
| Date created | November 5, 2021 |
| Language | English |
| Digital origin | born digital |
Creators/Contributors
| Interviewee | Bridges, Naima | |
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| Creator | Bridges, Naima | |
| Interviewer | Frothingham, Emma | |
| Publisher | Stanford Historical Society |
Subjects
| Subject | Stanford University. Students > 2002-2006 |
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| Subject | Universities and colleges |
| Subject | College students |
| Genre | Interview |
Bibliographic information
| Biographical Profile | Dr. Naima Bridges is a Bay Area born and raised obstetrician gynecologist. She went to high school not far from Stanford University, at Castilleja, and majored in Human Biology and minored in French while in college. She subsequently pursued her medical degree at the University of California, San Francisco and her Master’s in Public Health at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. She then returned to California for her OBGYN residency at University of California, Davis medical center and has been a practicing clinician since this timeframe. She looks back at her Stanford experience fondly and often volunteers on reunion committees. She was heavily involved with various musical groups such as Everyday People and Stanford Gospel Choir, studied abroad in Paris, and took part in Stanford Black Premed Organization. She has fond memories walking around the dried Lake Lagunita and hanging out with friends while walking through the quad or late at night eating dining hall food, which was excellent! Her sister Rashida was the class of 2007, and they often reminisce about their time in the same dorm, Ujamaa, in Naima’s last year where she was a peer health educator. She hopes her little one, Camille, may one day attend her favorite university! |
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| Finding Aid | |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/nj234vx7406 |
| Location | SC0932 |
| Repository | Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives |
Access conditions
- Use and reproduction
- The materials are open for research use and may be used freely for non-commercial purposes with an attribution. For commercial permission requests, please contact the Stanford University Archives (universityarchives@stanford.edu).
- Copyright
- Copyright © The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved.
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