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Hi, I am Kenzie.

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Medical student. Future forensic pathologist. Lifelong question-asker. Firm believer that pink has never made anyone less capable of doing serious things.

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I am so glad you found your way to my little corner of the internet.

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I am currently a second-year medical student working toward a career in forensic pathology, a field that combines so many things I have always loved: medicine, investigation, science, and the constant need to ask one more why.

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Before medical school, I earned my B.S. in Forensic Science and spent several years in a medical examiner’s office, eventually working as a forensic technician. Somewhere along the way, forensic pathology became more than something I found fascinating. It became the career I couldn’t imagine not pursuing.

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I love the science behind understanding what happened, but even more than that, I love the responsibility behind it: approaching death with curiosity and objectivity without ever forgetting the life that came before it.

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That is the doctor I am working toward becoming.

But I am also just a girl who loves pink, bows, getting dressed up, books that emotionally destroy me, and probably owning far too many things in various shades of blush.

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And I do not think those parts of me have to exist separately.

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That is why I created Forensic Fashionista.

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This is a space about becoming a doctor without disappearing into the process.

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We talk about the real experience of medical school: the wins, self-doubt, exams, mental health, perfectionism, growth, friendships, and all the messy parts in between.

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We talk about forensic pathology: what draws me to it, what I am learning, what people misunderstand about the field, and what it means to work around some of the heaviest parts of being human while still holding onto your humanity.

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And we talk about being a woman in medicine without feeling like you have to trade femininity, softness, or pieces of yourself for ambition and competence.

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I do not have everything figured out. Honestly, that’s kind of the point.

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I am writing this blog while I am becoming, while I am still learning what kind of physician and person I want to be.

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Sometimes we will talk from the other side of something. Sometimes we will talk from somewhere in the middle.

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Either way, I want this space to feel honest, supportive, curious, and like somewhere you can exhale for a minute.

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I hope you learn something here. I hope you laugh here. I hope you feel a little less alone here. And most of all, I hope Forensic Fashionista reminds you that you can build a meaningful, ambitious life without losing yourself along the way.

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You can be soft and serious. You can be ambitious and human. And yes, you can wear the freaking pink.

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Welcome to Forensic Fashionista. I am really glad you are here.

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Subscribe if you’d like to stick around, and never hesitate to reach out with a question, thought, or something you would love to see me talk about next.

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XOXO,
Kenzie