Adriana Golden

About Adriana

Adriana Golden is a senior at Yale College majoring in English with a Concentration in Creative Writing. Her thesis “Affect, Consumerism, Media, and the Question of Art in Postmodern Novels” examines how postmodern authors defend the novel as a relevant art form in the midst of a commodified entertainment sphere. Her second thesis, “Despicable Narrators,” is a collection of short stories exploring female bodily autonomy and questioning the mind-body problem. Adriana worked her way up from Staff Writer to Chair of The Yale Record, the oldest humor publication in America. As the 150th Chair of the Yale Record, she directed a major anniversary fundraiser while writing content and recruiting, training, and maintaining a staff of over eighty writers. She also performs original sketches and stand-up sets for The Odd Ducks comedy group.   Adriana also brings her humor to the patients at Yale New Haven Hospital, where she interviews long term patients about their life stories and shares their narratives with their care teams as part of the Living History Project. She believes that clinicians should consider the total person and not reduce patients to their medical conditions. This mindset informs her work as a Psychoeducation Provider at the HAVEN Free Clinic. Adriana conducts anxiety coping workshops and performs mental health evaluations for recent immigrants to the U.S. In addition, she is a research assistant on a Connecticut Mental Health Center study about the perception of substance use disorder among Latin American patients. Her co-written abstract on this project will be presented at the College on Problems of Drug Dependence. Her prior research on the role of the PD-1 protein pathway in endometriosis has been published in Fertility and Sterility.   While she has worked in diverse sectors and locations, from television development in Los Angeles to chemical engineering in Tokyo, she plans to spend the rest of her career as a physician-writer. Adriana wants to conduct clinical research and treat patients in obstetrics and gynecology or psychiatry. She plans to publish novels and essays on medical ethics for readers inside and outside the field. For now, her fiction is forthcoming in the Bellevue Literary Review.   In her free time, Adriana can be found country western dancing, cooking for her family, subjecting her friends to her jokes, and explaining why Jane Austen is still funny. She will graduate with a BA from Yale University in May 2024.