Dermatology has been the career of my dreams since my 8th-grade year. Helping people overcome their struggles with their skin and helping them regain confidence within themselves as well as better the quality of their life is unquestionably the career I would love to pursue daily. The rigorous 12 years of schooling to get to my dream is undoubtedly going to be exceedingly expensive and difficult to pay for, which is why I am extremely grateful for the opportunity of Cedrick'a Jackson's Memorial Scholarship. Although I do not have Sickle Cell, I do carry it, and by going into the healthcare field I can ensure I am able to help my future children to pay for their treatments if such is needed as well as have knowledge on the disease. This scholarship is an amazing opportunity to help pay for a portion of my schooling, which in the end, would go towards helping people.  Some don’t necessarily consider dermatology to be in the healthcare realm but healthcare is defined as “the organized provision of medical care” which dermatology falls under. As a dermatologist, I would be diagnosing, evaluating, and treating skin conditions as well as prescribing medications, and performing surgery. My overall goal would be to genuinely care for all of my patients and help them in every way possible. If possible I would try to make my treatments, advice, and services as affordable as possible so people can get help without having to sacrifice other things in the process. I believe that healthcare should be affordable to all and a guarantee so people aren’t forced to live at risk with their conditions untreated. Furthermore, by going into this field I can ensure that I will be able to help my children in the future if they do end up with my gene for Sickle Cell. I know Sickle Cell can be extremely hard to deal with both physically and financially, but having to watch my own children go through that would be a heartache that I wouldn’t know how to handle. Getting this scholarship to help with the cost of schooling in my future healthcare career would benefit me now, but long term it would also benefit my children to live happily and healthily as I would be able to have an understanding of the disease as well as afford their treatments from being able to go to college in the first place. While yes the healthcare field pays well, it also truly is my dream to be able to work in that field and help people be their best selves to live their best lives. Cedrick’a Jackson’s Scholarship would truly help me both now and in the future and I am extraordinarily grateful for the opportunity to apply.