Lindsay Lee

Biography

Lindsay E. Lee, Oak Ridge, is a senior at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she majors in mathematics and Spanish. She has done research at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis, at Vanderbilt Medical Center and at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She has also served as the president of the Dean's Student Advisory Council, as opinion columnist at the student newspaper, as a volunteer for the homeless, and in a children's hospital. She has studied in Barcelona and Tokyo. Diagnosed with muscular dystrophy at age three, Lindsay is a passionate and highly successful advocate for disability issues locally, nationally and globally. She plans to use her mathematical modeling expertise for analysis of successful health policy grounded in healthcare equality for all.