Dra. Erica Lubliner grew up in an immigrant Latino community and was the first in her family to receive a higher education at UCLA where she double majored in History and Women’s Studies with a minor Chicana/o Studies. While finishing her premed studies after UCLA, she served as a College Advisor at a Wilson High School in East Los Angeles, director of a non-profit scholarship organization called the Scholarship Association for English as a Second Language Students (SAESL), and business partner of a small jewelry design company, Mio Designs. She attended the UC Irvine Post-Bacc Program and worked for the UC Irvine School of Medicine’s PRIME-LC (Program for the Medical Education of the Latino Community). She was admitted to the UCLA-Drew Program where she took on leadership roles in the Latino Medical Student Association (LMSA) as Co-Chair and served as Editor-in-Chief of UCLA School of Medicine’s Humanities Journal—The BEAT. She was a Medical Education Fellow for the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA’s Center of Excellence. Her research explored female medical student perspectives on their clinical interactions with female superiors. Dra. Lubliner completed a combined adult and child adolescent psychiatry program at the UCLA/VAGLA working with diverse families in the community, military, and schools. She served as Associate Program Director at the UCLA/VAGLA Psychiatry Program. Currently, she is the Director of the UCLA Spanish Speaking Psychosocial Clinic where she provides culturally and linguistically responsive mental health care for Latinx patients.