Kanoe Evile is currently a first year medical student at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons. She grew up in the town of Haleiwa, HI on O’ahu in a Filipino-Samoan family that inspired her love for her community and Pacific Health. She completed her B.S. in Biological Engineering with a minor in Linguistics at MIT before entering the MD/PhD Program at Columbia. She is passionate about addressing Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) minority issues and looks forward to best serving these communities at the intersection of medicine and public health. Outside of school, she enjoys spending time with friends and family, adventures to the grocery store (and of course, cooking), and spontaneous karaoke and dance parties!