Jacki Castellanos, MD, MS

 Jackie is the daughter of immigrants from Korea and Mexico and was raised in Monterey Park, California, an Asian American and immigrant community. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley – University of California, San Francisco Joint Medical Program and holds a Master of Science and Doctor of Medicine. For her Master’s thesis, she was awarded the Emerging Scholars in Family Planning Grant from the Society of Family Planning Research Fund to design a qualitative research study to investigate undergraduate students’ access to abortion services. She authored an op-ed published in The Los Angeles Times (September 2019) based on the preliminary findings of this study to support the successful passage of the College Student Right to Access Act, which mandated that all California public universities offer medication abortions at student health centers. She is also interested in storytelling, both performing live for The A Word: Stories in Reproductive Health and The Nocturnists podcast. As a family medicine physician, she will continue to advocate for policy changes to increase access to comprehensive reproductive healthcare. She is excited to train at UNM’s family and community medicine’s residency program to learn how to practice addiction medicine, full-spectrum reproductive healthcare, and community medicine in a medically underserved area.