Dr. Abdalla is originally from New Jersey, went to medical school at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and is currently completing her family medicine residency training in northern California. Currently spends time at a FQHC and a safety net hospital in the northern California area. Dr. Abdalla’s patient population is primarily underinsured, uninsured, on Medicaid or Medical, and about half are monolingual Spanish speaking. She is an advanced Spanish speaker, and is certified as an interpreter. Working to empower the underserved population is what drives Dr. Abdalla to be a physician and she is currently involved at the local and state-wide level to advocate for universal access to care, providing protections for patients, criminal health justice reform, protecting women’s health funding.