Shamelle Richards

Shamelle graduated summa cum laude from the University of Washington, where she received a B.A. in Anthropology: Medical Anthropology and Global Health with a minor in Human Rights. As a Mary Gates scholar, she completed a departmental honors project examining the reproductive health of migrant women from the English-speaking Caribbean. After working for a health economics project at the University of Washington Department of Global Health, she pursued a joint JD/MPH program and graduated from Yale Law School and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she was a Sommer Scholar and focused her studies on epidemiology and biostatistics. Shamelle works as in-house counsel for Bavarian Nordic, a Danish vaccine manufacturer, where she practices health care and regulatory law in addition to running the company’s compliance and privacy programs.