Scholars in the Arts
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Caprice Gray
“This is the way, I am convinced, to tell America what needs to change, both on a domestic and a national scale. By actually telling stories of the statistics. By traveling the country and matching names to the numbers, by doing public health work, not in silence, not without record, but for all the world to hear.”
- Program: 2008 Graduate Scholarship Recipient
- Hometown: New York, NY
- Four-year College or University: Yale University
- Graduate School: Boston University, Harvard University
Biography
PROFILE: Caprice Gray rose above her circumstances to attend first a prestigious magnet high school and then Yale University. Growing up in a severely underprivileged community, Caprice has long been troubled by the disparities between her two worlds. “I have committed myself to their rectification, to the so-called bridging of the gap.”
Caprice’s focus on public health stems from her own experiences with a diabetic father and a mother who became disabled. Her passion for the written word is as strong as her commitment to humanitarian concerns. She combines the two in a unique vision of making a difference in the public health arena.
INSPIRATION: Caprice is inspired by writers like Oliver Sacks, Richard Selzer and Abraham Verghese who wrote of medicine.
ASPIRATION: Caprice hopes to work in the area of environmental health, focusing on marginalized and at-risk communities such as minority urban and American Indian reservation populations. Her goal is also to continue writing as a novelist, playwright and journalist.
MAKING A DIFFERENCE: Caprice served on the Board of Teens Against Relationship Abuse and worked at the Fellowship Place, a New Haven center for the mentally ill. She volunteered as a mentor with New Haven adolescents and worked with America Reads in the New Haven public schools.
ACCOLADES: Caprice is the recipient of the Fannie Rothberg Scholarship, awarded to one Yale undergraduate female student every four years. She has won numerous awards for her writing, including Bertelsmann World of Expression Scholar; Scholastic Art & Writing Awards – Gold Key; and ACT-SO Olympics of the Mind. She is the recipient of the Richter Fellowship to study HIV/AIDS in Swaziland.
INTERESTING FACT: Caprice’s work has been published in Sounds of this House, an anthology from the National Book Foundation, and in the RBS anthology, I Have Risen. She is currently working on a novel.
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