Meet Incoming ARP President Rebecca Cleveland

Second, I served in the Peace Corps right after college, spending two-and-a-half years in a small village in Benin, West Africa, working on a Guinea worm-eradication project. That experience sparked my interest in epidemiology, and while it was sometimes challenging, it also taught me resilience, adaptability and how to navigate uncertainty.

Leslie Mertz, PhD, is a freelance science journalist based in northern Michigan.