Leonardo Garcia
Medical Student (Class of 2025)
UCSF
Leonardo.garcia@ucsf.edu
San Francisco, CA, USA

Area of expertise: Pediatric Student Clinic Coordination

Leo Garcia (he/him/his) is a third-year medical student at UCSF. He was born in Bogotá, Colombia and raised in Houston, TX. Leo studied Sociology with a Secondary in Chemistry at Harvard University. As a DACA recipient and someone who advocated for immigrant rights nationally through Harvard’s Act on a Dream, Leo is someone with strong educational and organizing experience on immigration.

His deep commitment to immigration advocacy drew him to the UCSF Human Rights Collaborative, where he served as the founding pediatric clinic coordinator, managing the clinic's operations and communications with our legal and community partners. Leo is continuing work with the first student-run pediatric asylum clinic through research in hopes that more clinics will open in the future.

Other commitments include the Acute Care Innovation Center (ACIC), Anti-Oppressive Curriculum Student Collaborative, and Clínica Martín-Baro volunteer work. As part of the ACIC, Leo has designed immigration resource referral tools for the UCSF Emergency Departments and led the first immigrant health didactic session for UCSF emergency medicine residency didactics. He is someone with both a personal stake in immigrant health and aspires to center it in his professional career.