Brooke Shearon, a native of Raleigh, North Carolina, holds a Master of Public Policy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She pursued a field area in Health Policy, Bioethics, and Human Rights on the Program Evaluation track. Brooke received her Bachelor’s degree in Public Policy and Economics with a minor in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Brooke is interested in the social determinants of health, correlates of discrimination and healthcare access, economic development policy, and health economics.