Alejandra Gonzalez-Acosta

Class of 2025
Major in Psychology; Minors in Visual Arts and Computational Biology

Hello beautiful person! I am from Orlando, FL majoring in Psychology on the pre-med track with minors in Visual Arts and Computational Biology. I am a RA on East Campus serving first year students. I am an active member of the Minority Association for Premedical Students (MAPS) and Duke University's student-run musical theater group, Hoof ‘n’ Horn. This past summer, I worked as a Duke Tour Guide and an Orientation Leader for Project Arts, one of Duke’s orientation programs for incoming first-year students. In my free time I like to rock climb and collect playing card decks.

Favorite Class: My favorite class I have taken thus far at Duke has been Medicine and Human Flourishing. In this class, we discussed the history of medicine and biases that exist within healthcare today. We touched on topics such as the meaning behind the Hippocratic Oath, the history of racism and ableism in healthcare, and allocation of resources within a clinical setting, and this gave me a unique and more holistic perspective on healthcare.