Salima Etoka is a Master’s in Public Policy candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, a Harry S. Truman Scholar, and alumna of Trinity College. She is passionate about human rights with a focus on gender equality and equitable access to social services. Before HKS, she worked in New York City municipal government and nonprofit organizations on a broad range of issues ranging from access to social services to protecting affordable homeownership. Salima was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo and immigrated to the US at the age of nine.