Jennifer Yu is an 18-year-old healthcare accessibility advocate pursuing a B.A. in Political Science and a minor in Public Health from Northeastern University. 

 

Jennifer’s work in eating disorder awareness and healthcare accessibility advocacy has been honored by the Princeton Prize in Race Relations, the National Association of Secondary School Principals, and has been featured in Nickelodeon Series Nick! News. She has been named Massachusetts Student of the Year by the Massachusetts School Administrators’ Association (MSAA) and has presented her community approach to healthcare accessibility with the MSAA Annual Fall Conference.

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Jennifer believes that access to affordable healthcare should be a basic human right. Mobilizing students within the eating disorder recovery community, she recognizes that this starts with ensuring the equal access of eating disorder treatment to youth patients across the country.