Student Spotlight: Jeeda Hennawi, ’27

When you go into pre-med with a Jesuit liberal arts education, you can expand your horizons so much more. You understand the context of people and patients instead of just the medicine. You are focusing on the person as a whole.

Jeeda Hennawi, ’27, a biology and Spanish double major from Timonium, Maryland, always saw premedical studies in her future. She grew up loving the natural sciences and pretending to be a doctor with her little cousins. It was Loyola’s interdisciplinary curriculum, however, that truly broadened her perspective of possibility.

A class on Spanish for health care professions taught her about disparities within the Latinx community and the greater healthcare system, encouraging her passion for patient and community advocacy.

Hennawi is also heavily involved in community service. As a service coordinator intern for the Center for Community, Service, and Justice, Hennawi connects student volunteers and service-learners to partners such as the Refugee Youth Project and CASA de Maryland programs. She is also a member of the Pre-Health Society and Student Health Advisory Council.

“There’s a whole different side of Baltimore that I want to keep exploring. In class, we’re learning a lot about real-life situations and concepts. With extracurriculars, you are in the real world gaining lived experience and new perspectives,” she said. “At Loyola, you have so many options, and you have all the tools to be able to use those options.”