Burnett Brand Ambassadors Program Grows
Thirty-five medical students were selected for the 2025-26 program, which is run by the Office of Communication and Strategy at the Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine at Texas Christian University.
FORT WORTH – In its sixth year, the Burnett Brand Ambassadors program has grown.
Thirty-five medical students were selected for the 2025-26 program, which is run by the Office of Communication and Strategy at the Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine at Texas Christian University. The award-winning program trains medical students to represent the medical school in media interviews as well as marketing and social media campaigns. The students also attend special events and give reports or speeches about the Burnett School of Medicine at TCU.
“As a novel medical school, we had to find an equally innovative approach to communicate our school’s unique curriculum,” said Maricar Estrella, MBA, Director of Digital Development and Content Strategy at the Burnett School of Medicine at TCU, who founded the program.
The 2025-26 Burnett Brand Ambassadors are:
Class of 2026: Angela Abarquez, Isabella Aguiar, Cort Ewing, Simar Goyal, Lauren Hui, Maha Khan, Kailie McGee, Kyung Park.
Class of 2027: Fiza Baloch, Ashley Kenney, Nico Martinez, Jonah Schmitz, Whitney Stanton, Jeanine Williams, Iza Zabaneh
Class of 2028: Emily Bogordos, Raika Bourmand, Nicholas DeVito, Marisa Fat, Ava Hekmati, Bijan Hosseini, Sylvia Inkindi, Zacharia Ismaio, Martha-Grace McLean, Thien An Nguyen, Jenny Pham, Stephen Pullman
Class of 2029: Isabela Agu Maluli, Madeline Belknap, Matthew Chang, Kate Myers, Sereen Osman, Arvind Ramakrishnan, Aubri Robinson, Jenna Williamson
A committee consisting of faculty and staff evaluates and selects students who apply to the program, which is voluntary.
The program has grown to include media training from local journalists such as CBS 11 Investigative Reporter Andrea Lucia, NBC 5 Sports Director Newy Scruggs, ’23 EMBA, and social media influencers such as J Mack Slaughter, Jr., M.D., an emergency medicine physician.
In 2023, the Burnett Brand Ambassadors Program received a Circle of Excellence Award by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). The program also received CASE Best of District IV honors.