Annabelle Jin

About Annabelle

Annabelle Jin is a senior at the University of Pennsylvania majoring in Biology with a Concentration in Neurobiology and minoring in English and Chemistry. As Co-Founder and Education Committee Lead for Penn Reproductive Justice, she is passionate about educating students about menstrual health and empowering them to advocate for menstrual equity. Annabelle spearheaded the Menstrual Health Education Program, reaching 45 students at West Philadelphia high schools and middle schools. She is a Co-Founder for Students Organizing for Access to Reproductive Health (SOAR), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit funded by Davis Projects for Peace that trains high school students to become reproductive health leaders in their own communities. Annabelle also organized educational events about reproductive health at Penn that have reached over 250 attendees and was Lead Organizer for Penn’s inaugural Reproductive Justice Conference, which explored themes from intersectionality and activism to entrepreneurship and healthcare.

Beyond reproductive health, Annabelle enjoys listening to patient stories while providing free blood pressure screenings at food kitchens and creating interactive play activities for pediatric cancer patients at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). She conducts pulmonary development research at the David Frank Lab at CHOP, where she leads her independent project investigating the role of the epigenetic reader BRD4 in lung morphology, with implications for treatment of pulmonary fibrosis. Annabelle is a Benjamin Franklin Scholar, 2022 Penn Office of Social Equity & Community Fellow, 2022 United Nations Millennium Fellow, and 2023 Penn Institute for Urban Research Fellow. Annabelle hopes to become an adolescent medicine physician to combine her interests in reproductive justice and medicine. In her free time, she can be found experimenting with new recipes, reading books, or exploring art museums. Annabelle will graduate with a BA from the University of Pennsylvania in May 2025.