Miki Rai
Miki Rai
Career
Rai started her career in 2014 as an intern at Palo Alto Medical Foundation. Her competitive summer internship involved working with healthcare professionals to conduct research about senior well-being and establishing a link between traditional healthcare approaches and the social determinants of health. From 2014-2015, she worked as a Sales Associate at Paris Baguette. She served as a cashier and barista, decorated pastries and provided high quality trilingual customer service at the new store launch.[17]
Since 2013, Rai has been a member of American Red Cross. She first was a Chair of Leadership Development Center, later Youth Executive Board Co-Chair, and National Youth Council Communications Lead.[17]
Since 2014, she has been a volunteer at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. She worked at the Center of Nursing Excellence to create, maintain, modify and publish continuing education classes for nurses, doctors and other non-clinical staff, and in the maternity unit to assist in patient discharges, create admission folders in English and Spanish, clear meal trays and restock family rooms.[17]
She was also an Immunology Intern at Lin-Zhi International.In
2017, she was a Digital Marketing Manager at Simms/Mann-UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology.[17]
Rai has also worked as a model and actress for Apple, Microsoft Skype, Education First International Boarding School, Vert Baudet, Public Education Network, Sexy Hair, Cablevision, ABC 7, USA Today, NBC, KTSF TV, Incognito (Canada), Kwanzaa (Disney World), El Estoque, Cisco, American Red Cross, FM 96.1, CCTV, World Journal, STV News, National Basketball Association, YouTube, and Google.[17]
In the Media
Rai is a trained pediatric intensive care unit nurse.
She received her nursing degree from the UCLA School of Nursing in 2018.[1]
"It's incredibly humbling to be part of a profession where we can be on the front-line, supporting patients and families through an incredibly difficult time.
Although there is a lot of uncertainty, there is also a lot of hope as we see more research and data being shared throughout the world.
Scientists are hard at work trying to develop a vaccine", Rai said.[1]