Isabel Tamas
Student Educator
Spring 2021
About
She / Her / Hers
Isabel Tamas is a fourth-year Honors College student at UIC and a proud Mexican-Romanian. Her passion for addressing mental health issues and advocacy of underrepresented communities have led her to pursue degrees in Anthropology and Psychology. Isabel has experience conducting on-campus research at the Institute of Public Health, where she studied youth mentoring. She is currently an Ambassador of UIC’s Gender and Sexuality Center. Outside UIC, Isabel works as a volunteer with Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos, a nonprofit organization that supports children in Latin America and the Caribbean. As an intern, she hopes to spread awareness surrounding the relationship between environmental justice and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.