Daniela Barraza

Daniela is a first-gen Mexican-American scholar from Sunland Park, NM. She attended New Mexico State University for her undergraduate studies, where she obtained a degree in Biochemistry and participated in the MARC NIH program. Daniela is currently a PhD candidate in Biological Sciences at Harvard Medical School, studying the role of intestinal enteroendocrine cells in the host response to enteric bacterial infection. She is currently part of the CL social media team and has previously served as a mentor for our CL Graduate School Mentorship Initiative (GSMI) program. Outside of lab, Daniela enjoys playing soccer, cooking and spending time with family and friends.