Growing up in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Mary Tate remembers her mother preaching the value of education. “She is easily the strongest person I know,” Tate said of her mother, Chryel. “She raised us to believe that, with education, we could do whatever we wanted to. I really took that to heart.”⠀ ⠀ Tate studied biology at Dartmouth, graduating in 2012, and then spent a year working with the nonprofit One Heart World-Wide, which implements maternal and neonatal mortality prevention programs for underserved populations around the world.⠀ ⠀ Inspired by that experience, after enrolling at Harvard Medical School, Tate sought to create an organization that emulated One Heart’s community health worker model. She founded a group called Medical Students Offer Maternal Support, or MOMS, which enlists first-year med students to offer support to pregnant women through one of Boston’s community health centers.⠀ ⠀ As a third-year student, Tate applied for a dual degree program with the Harvard T.H. Chan Sc...