For I suffered the greatest conceivable terror of the irreparable difference with which success in the attempt would mark me. I feared a wound not of the body but the soul, sir, an irreconcilable division between myself and the rest of humankind. I feared the proof of my own singularity.

- Angela Carter, "Nights at the Circus"

Rosalie Imler is a native Oakland girl in the process of completing her senior year at The University of CA, Santa Barbara. She has completed all the prerequisite courses for medical school and is finishing up with an Bachelor's degree in English Literature, her abiding passion. Rosalie is in the process of becoming nationally certified to practice as an Emergency Medical technician, and she plans to work in Oakland's Highland Hospital Emergency Department for a year whilst applying to various graduate programs in Public Health and Policy.

Ms. Imler has been involved in the allied health professions since graduating high school. She has volunteered at convalescent homes through Adventures in Caring, volunteered and completed a one-year Communications Internship through Doctors Without Walls- Santa Barbara Street Medicine, and she is currently enrolled in the Santa Barbara City College's EMT program. Ms. Imler is active and adventurous sort of person, and she can often be found kayaking, rock climbing, and running on the beach whenever time permits.