Carla Maries I. Ricafort
University of Santo Tomas, Philippines
Biography
Carla Ricafort is a Level IV student of the University of Santo Tomas College of Nursing, Manila, Philippines. She was born in Dubai, UAE, from full Filipino parents, and later moved to the Philippines for Primary Education. She then migrated to the United States with her family and spent 8 consecutive years finishing her Primary and Secondary Education from 2003-2011. In 2012, she made the decision to pursue nursing as a life career after the footsteps of her mother. Inspired by her own experiences of becoming an international student and the relentless care demonstrated by nurses, she aspires to seek higher education and health care profession in other continents such as Europe and North America. Because of her love for culture, she continues to strive for the acculturative needs of her fellow international students by leading the university’s international student organization as the President of the UST International Students Association from 2014-2016.