Dr. Stephanie Baker from the U.S. and Guatemala

Heather Bruce Satrom

Dr. Stephanie Baker grew up in Silver Spring, MD in a Latino immigrant family and a single parent household. She now lives with her husband in LA. Her childhood experiences exposed her to health disparities in low-income communities, especially the Latino immigrant community. This led her to dream of becoming a community doctor, working with low-income, immigrant communities. Dr. Baker is bilingual and bicultural, having spent part of her childhood in her mother’s home country of Guatemala. Baker attended Montgomery College from 2008 to 2010. She earned a master’s degree in biology at University of Maryland, Baltimore County and a master’s degree in medical sciences at Loma Linda University in southern California. After a long journey and struggles to overcome a learning disability, Baker earned her medical degree at Loma Linda University School of Medicine. Dr. Baker is now a Family Medicine resident at Harbor UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles where she works with low-income and immigrant communities. In her interview, Dr. Baker shares her story of her educational journey at MC and explains how her experience of growing up between cultures led her to a fulfilling career in medicine.