Emmanuel Adetunji

Public Service has always been an integral part of Emmanuel Adetunji, illustrated by his role as a youth leader in his church-centered Nigerian-community, years of volunteer work in his hometown of Nashville, Tennessee, and his involvement in an educational community initiative during high-school to destigmatize addiction. In university, this virtue of his has been able to thrive from increased opportunity. At MIT, this has been possible through the connections he has made with various MIT entities like MIT’s OACES, working for two summers with the department as a Residential Facilitator to help students from underrepresented backgrounds in academia learn chemistry and transition more easily to MIT, and working for two years as a deskworker for their Talented Scholars’ Resource Room to help students comfortably access academic aid. Additionally, Emmanuel has worked with MISTI-Mexico’s GTL program to teach K-12 students in Mexico various topics in STEM, like biology, chemistry, and calculus, and is involved in various clubs that help foster campus community, like Technique, where he helps preserve memories by taking pictures for clubs and departments and helps design the yearbook, and ClubChem, where he helps chemistry-related graduate and undergraduate students form mentorship relationships. Off campus, Emmanuel’s public service has further manifested in the work he does directly with members of underserved populations, like Cambridge’s homeless youth through Y2Y Harvard Square, and Brockton’s non-native English-speaking Caribbean population as a medical scribe for Boston Medical Center–South. In the future, Emmanuel hopes to continue exemplifying this virtue of his as a physician-scientist.