Mentorship that meets students where they are.

A third-year, first-generation medical student from La Crosse, Wisconsin. Mentorship is the thread that runs through everything he does. Long before MedRise Mentors had a name, he spent four and a half years driving to high schools and universities across Wisconsin, Kentucky, and Tennessee. He taught students how to become competitive applicants and mentored premeds one-on-one, for free.

Every presentation showed him the same thing. Talented students are everywhere, but good guidance is not. That need led him to found MedRise Mentors in 2025 on a simple belief: no student should navigate the path to medicine alone. He is grateful to build it with a team of medical students who share that belief. His favorite part is still sitting down with students and helping them find their way forward.

Born in Calgary and rooted in Memphis since middle school. As a first-generation student, he found the road to medicine overwhelming without clear guidance. He helped found MedRise Mentors so that mentorship is accessible to everyone and financial barriers never stand in the way.

Raised in Northern Illinois, he navigated the premed process by trial and error without connections in medicine. The mentors who changed his trajectory inspired him to help found MedRise Mentors and pay that guidance forward to the next generation of physicians.

A first-generation medical student from Knoxville who believes everyone needs someone walking ahead of them, beside them, and behind them. MedRise Mentors exists to be that guide, replacing fragmented forum advice with real, longitudinal support.

A first-generation college student from Northern Kentucky who graduated Summa Cum Laude. Having felt firsthand how vital mentors are on the medical-school journey, she helps students navigate the path with that same guidance and support.

A first-generation college and medical student from Nashville who leaned on mentors through every application. He brings a photography and videography background to MedRise Mentors, expanding the organization's reach to premed students nationwide.

A third-year medical student from Murfreesboro, TN, who came to medicine from a non-medical background. He knows how easy it is to feel overwhelmed by the path ahead and the conflicting advice that surrounds it. He joined MedRise Mentors because the right mentorship can be a game-changer in cutting through that noise.

He is building out MedRise Mentors' hands-on clinical exposure. He has established a shadowing database of Memphis physicians, Memphis Fire Department ride-alongs, and an ER doctor–student shadowing program.