Rena Andrews

As an aspiring doctor and the only child of an investment banker and a flight attendant, Rena grew up between New York's Upper West Side and Westchester. She enjoyed ballet and jazz dance, horseback riding, skiing, and tennis, and by high school was a scholar athlete who played Varsity tennis, basketball, soccer, and lacrosse, with a brief career as a sprinter in college. With a wide range of interests and talents, she can truly be considered a modern-day Renaissance woman. After playing the lead in her sixth grade play she was incurably bit by the acting bug and by the time she finished college she couldn't fight it any longer. At 18, she was accepted into a prestigious eight-year medical program at Brown University into which fewer than 150 aspiring doctors are accepted each year. At Brown, Rena majored in Afro-American Studies, was selected as the freshman speaker for Black History Month, spent one semester teaching in New York and another studying at the Sorbonne in Paris. Her ext