My name is Annaliese Viscarra, and I am currently a junior studying nutritional sciences at UW Madison. I am studying nutritional sciences because I have a passion for learning about how nutritional status affects the quality of life. As someone who believes that food is medicine, I am driven to help people overcome health challenges through a dietetics perspective. I am very grateful to have received the Kathleen E. McCarthy Dietetics Scholarship. This award has helped relieve some of my financial burden and as a result, I am able to spend more time focusing on my schoolwork and pursuing other academic subjects that interest me.