Amanda J. Calhoun, MD, MPH, is a third year Adult/Child Psychiatry Resident at Yale School of Medicine. Within the Psychiatry residency at Yale, she is on the Child & Adolescent research track, where she receives protected research time each year and is automatically accepted into the Child/Adolescent Psychiatry fellowship. At the end of her 6-year residency, she will be double boarded in Adult as well as Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. Dr. Calhoun is also pursuing her PhD while in residency. Her current research aims to identify and mitigate the effects of racism on the mental health of Black children, in particular Black girls. Dr. Calhoun graduated from Yale University with a BA in Spanish and received her MD/MPH from Saint Louis University School of Medicine, in St. Louis, Missouri, where she grew up. She aims to increase representation of Black populations, both in the USA and abroad, in academic research and has first-authored a plethora of manuscripts, including in the New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Calhoun also considers herself a physician-activist and has given a myriad of presentations and protest speeches exposing racism in the medical system. She has also appeared on national television, including PBS Newshour, and been featured in TIME magazine for her activism in medicine. Dr. Calhoun firmly believes that all doctors should be activists and promotes the integration of social justice teaching with education.