Joya Ahmad is a queer woman of color living and working in NYC, applying to medical school, and serving on the national board of the nonprofit MedSupplyDrive. She is a distance runner, a private tutor, and a poet, and she owns way too many books but loves them all too much to ever downsize. She's a long-time reader of Autostraddle and a first-time contributor, and she is always looking for new opportunities to write. You can find her on Twitter at @many_themiles and follow MedSupplyDrive's NYC chapter at @medsupplydrivenyc.