Jessica Kraus is currently a third year undergraduate student at Johns Hopkins University. She is majoring in public health studies and minoring in environmental studies. This year is her second year as a research assistant at Center for a Livable Future. Her experience has allowed her to combine her two academic interests-public health and the environment. She is a supporter of Center for a Livable Future’s awareness campaigns aimed at children, since she herself became a vegetarian at age ten after reading a book on modern day farming. This past summer she spent two months on a research grant analyzing HIV/TB co-infection cases in Vitoria, Brazil. Past summer experiences have included living on a farm, whale watching in Canada, interning for a congressman, and volunteering in an orphanage in China. In addition to Center for a Livable Future, she currently researches for credit with an epidemiology professor at JHSPH. In the spring she plans to study abroad in Geneva, Switzerland as part of a public health program. She currently serves as co-president of Public Health Student Forum and as a member of the Student Admissions Advisory Board where she writes about her experience as a student for a Johns Hopkins University Undergraduate Admissions blog.