Scholarship to help UCSB graduate’s efforts to aid underserved communities

By KATHERINE ZEHNDER NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

Santa Barbara native Olubukayo Akinyemi recently received help in her efforts to provide health care to underserved communities.

The UCSB graduate is one of 175 health professionals who were awarded the United Health Foundation Diversity In Health Care Scholarship this past December.

These awards are part of the foundation’s broader $100 million philanthropic commitment over 10 years to help address health disparities and advance health equity in communities across the country. The second round of applications for this scholarship opened on Feb. 13, and the goal is to award 475 additional scholarships.

“It was a struggle in the last