Community Research Assistant
Aresha Auzenne
Aresha Auzenne is a San Francisco native, specializing in trauma informed birth work, placenta medicine, breastfeeding counseling and donor milk education. Aresha is a full spectrum holistic Doula and a mother to a vibrant little boy. She is most passionate about empowering women and mothers of color, building supportive maternal communities and fostering spaces of healing through motherhood. She credits her work, her passion and her healing to the many powerful women who held her and her son, during her own transition into the depths of motherhood-learning to crawl, to walk, to talk, to exist as a brand-new being. Aresha is currently working as a Community Researcher at UC Davis, investigating Black maternal health and birth outcomes amongst women and mothers of color.
Student Researcher
Pheobe Phomsavan
University of California, Davis
Pheobe (she/her/hers) is a fourth year/soon-to-be graduate at the University of California, Davis studying Human Development and Asian American Studies. Her research interests are in health inequities and disparities, particularly for BIPOC women. Outside of the lab, she spends her time as the Willow Clinic’s Undergraduate Affairs Head and OB/GYN Health Coordinator where she leads two committees at the UC Davis Health-affiliated clinic dedicated to serving West Sacramento’s population of people experiencing homelessness. After undergrad, Pheobe plans on getting her masters in nursing, fulfilling her dreams of becoming a nurse practitioner with the intention of providing holistic and culturally-competent care.
Student Researcher
Nico Rossi
I am a fourth year Human Development major, in the department of human ecology, at UC Davis, graduating June 2025. My research interests mainly focus around health equity research, both in the reproductive health sphere and more broadly. I hope to work somewhere in public health and health equity research in my future.
Univeristy of California, Davis, CA
Student Researcher
Annalise Kalmanoff
University & Department/Major: UC Davis, Anthropology
Annalise is a 4th year undergraduate at UC Davis studying anthropology and public health! She interested in the intersection between social science and medicine, and excited to pursue public health in the futureI'm interested in research related to substance-use, sexual and reproductive health, and healthcare access. Specific topics and issues that excite her the most are research related to health equity, health literacy and education, and community resilience. She is also interested in learning more about qualitative and mixed research methods.
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