Dr. Curtis Nacev grew up on the Olympic Peninsula in Silverdale, WA. She studied at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, spending her Junior year in Buenos Aires, Argentina. After college, she moved to San Francisco to serve two AmeriCorps terms at a Department of Public Health family health center, where she worked as a health coach and helped start a patient advisory council. During medical school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she was a member of the Training in Urban Medicine and Public Health and spent her clinical years in Milwaukee. Here, she worked with the Sixteenth Street Community Health Center Department of Environmental Health on a longitudinal community project, including her MPH capstone related to  lead screening during pregnancy. She also served as President of the International Board of Directors of Medical Students for Choice, sitting on the board from 2018-2021. Her research interests center on reproductive health services, education and policy, and health disparities. Outside of medicine, she enjoys spending time with her husband and daughter, cooking and baking, walking her lab mix Rosie, and doing crossword puzzles.