From The Peopling of NYC

Vadim's Profile	Vadim in Cancun
Birthdate	August 27
Location	Brooklyn, NY

Vadim Kurbatov is proud to be a student in the Brooklyn College CUNY Honors program. He is simultaneously enroled in the Brooklyn college B.A./M.D. Program, associated with Downstate Medical School.

He was born in the Ukraine and immigrated to the United States at the age of six. Since then he lived in Brooklyn and enjoyed the rich socio-economic and cultural diversity offered by the unique borough.

While attending Stuyvesant High School, he worked at the Police Athletic League (PAL). This experience exposed him to diversity outside of Brooklyn and introduced him to several very strong communities. He spent a summer in the PAL Hell's Kitchen Center as a counselor for the center's summer camp program for children of low-income households and then spent the subsequent summer working as a head-counselor at a program housed in P.S. 181 in Springfield, Queens that was designed to provide elementary school students in the commuinty who failed standardized exams with tutoring and counseling.

At PAL Vadim also got involved with the Future Educators Institute where he was part of a group creating a proposal for a small school in the South Bronx. He was also part of a group that spearheaded the "PAL Radio" Program and represented the organization at a Youth Radio Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Vadim's interests include literature, creative writing, music, art, medical research, bodybuilding, and shopping. He plans to double-major in Biology and English.

He currently resides in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn with his parents and his beloved cat Dita.