Joniqua Ceasar is originally from Houston, Texas and is a graduate of Baylor College of Medicine. She completed a pre-doctoral training fellowship at the National Heart Lung and Blood institute within the National Institutes of Health. She completed her Internal Medicine and Pediatrics training at the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Residency Program, with a focus on social determinants of health and primary care. She hopes to practice as a community primary care physician who empowers historically oppressed people and neighborhoods by partnering in community engaged research to examine the exposome and its influence on chronic disease and healthy behaviors. She aims to pursue advocacy-informed research that facilitates evidence-based policies rooted in racial, environmental and economic justice to build healthy, climate-resilient communities.