Kendra Tappin

is a writer and research scholar trained at Barnard College and Stanford University. She is currently a graduate student at the George Washington University in the School of Public Health. Her work covers a range of public health and social policy issues including maternal and child health, education, early childhood development, social mobility and inequality. Kendra is also the mother of 3 year old, identical twin girls. For fun she spends time with her family, experiments with cooking new recipes, and watches Olivia Pope.