Joan Kim is currently a 2025 Master of Health Administration progressive degree candidate at the University of Southern California Price School of Public Policy. Joan incorporates her academic knowledge around healthcare and the social sciences within her current scope of work as a health advocacy intern at Koreatown Youth and Community Center’s Koreatown Organizing to Reduce Youth Opioid [Use] (KORYO) program, in which she focuses on spearheading and creating prevention interventions around opioid awareness that are catered for the Los Angeles Service Planning Area (SPA) 4 communities.