Rochelle-Jan (RJ) Reyes, MPH, is a first generation Filipina-American raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. They are a staff research associate at UCSF and a UCSF PROPEL Scholar. She received their BS for Physiology at San Francisco State University and performed computational research in Genetics. Afterwards, they obtained a MPH at the University of California San Diego, with an emphasis in Epidemiology. She aims to obtain a PhD in Epidemiology with a focus on investigating and promoting cardiovascular health in the Filipino community.