Nassim Lemseffer grew up in Davis California. He graduated in 2016 with a BS in Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology from the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC). At UCSC he developed a love for research and worked for a year in a lab that studied bacteria-pathogen interactions that could impact vector-borne diseases. He returned to Davis to complete his MPH with an epidemiology focus in 2019. His MPH project also focused on a vector-borne disease, malaria, but from the perspective of developing community involvement in mosquito control. He volunteered at Shifa clinic, a community student-run medical clinic, where he turned his MPH training to addressing end of life care issues for Muslims. Nassim currently works for the California Department of Public Health as a Public Health Program Manager for the COVID response. Nassim is also applying for medical school. Nassim values physical fitness. He is an avid soccer player which he enjoyed at the college level and now coaches youth. To relax, he enjoys slacklining which he finds meditative, balancing on a two-inch-wide strap strung between two trees.