Scholar Profile

Lena Jones

Public Health

Biography

Lena Jones, a graduate of The Archer School for Girls, is a Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation Senator and 2019 American Legion Auxiliary Girls Nation Senator. As a rising senior at Yale, Lena majors in Cognitive Science and History. She intends to apply her studies toward a career in public health evaluation, seeking to understand how psychophysiological indicators of conflict/lack of reconciliation might inform new evaluatory frameworks. During summer 2023, Lena lived in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Quito, Ecuador, studying provision of preventative healthcare and emergency services in many distinct contexts. She has worked for the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the Sonoma County Department of Health Services, the CA Department of Justice, and the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. She also completed a theological fiction novel manuscript and is currently seeking agent representation. In her free time, Lena loves to write short stories and hike in her hometown of Los Angeles, CA.

High school:  The Archer School for Girls

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