Updates

Kathleen Valverde, PhD, LCGC, is probably best known for her role as the program director of the University of Pennsylvania (previously Arcadia University) Genetic Counseling Programs since 2004.

Class of 2025 Warren Alpert scholar, Timbria Burke (she/her), published a critically important piece for NSGC Perspectives entitled, “Black/African American” - Black Cultural Erasure in Genetic Counseling.

We are celebrating with Didar Yahia, Class of 2026 Warren Alpert Scholar in the Genetic Counseling Master’s Program at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. 

Class of 2025 Warren Alpert scholar, Lupita Sanchez, published a critically important piece for NSGC Perspectives entitled, “Confronting Biases and Embracing Intersectionality in Genetic Counseling”.

Evelyn is currently a 2nd-year genetic counseling student at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is a scholar of the Warren Alpert Foundation Alliance to Increase Diversity in Genetic Counseling Fellowship.