Leda grew up in Emerald Hills, CA and moved to the east coast to attend Dartmouth College, where she studied Biology. After graduating, she spent a month hiking the John Muir Trail before moving to Boston, MA to join a research group that studies the long-term psychosocial outcomes of burn survivors. She attended medical school at the University of North Carolina, completing her third year rotations in the western part of the state at UNC’s branch campus in Asheville. As a medical student, she worked as a peer tutor, volunteer Spanish interpreter, and volunteer coordinator at UNC’s student-run free clinic. She hopes to be a generalist, providing inclusive and full-spectrum reproductive healthcare for folks through all different walks of life.