# @harvard on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BkNiDePhm-b
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- **Posted:** 2018-06-19T15:34:08.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Harvard University (@harvard) — https://gondola.cc/harvard

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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.”⠀
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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.⠀
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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.⠀
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As a third-year student, Tate applied for a dual degree program with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She was accepted and delayed her final year of medical school to earn a master’s degree in public health before returning to HMS. In 2017, Tate started the podcast “Dear Premed,” offering advice, interviews, and the latest medical news to pre-med students.⠀
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A graduate of the Class of 2018, Tate is beginning an obstetrics and gynecology (OB-GYN) residency program in Chicago. She plans to continue to produce “Dear Premed” and to think about ways to reach out to underserved communities — whether through a similar podcast or through more traditional media — once her training concludes.⠀
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“I’ll be getting to do the thing I’ve been dreaming about since I was a little girl. I’m over the moon, I’m so excited.” ⠀
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This is part of a series showcasing some of the stellar graduates of #Harvard18 Commencement.⠀
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Photo: Rose Lincoln/Harvard Staff Photographer

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