#  They're on My Team: Mentorship at the Incubator 

 





January 29, 2025

 

 

     ![Ashton Body and Professor Goldie with Body's children's book.](/sites/g/files/omnuum10866/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-06/20230309_GHELI_GE1063-SJG-Ashton-Aimee.jpg?itok=SsO5Pf41) 

Ashton Body and Professor Sue J. Goldie.



 



 

Ashton Body says the most special thing about receiving mentorship at the Global Health Education and Learning Incubator (GHELI) is how her mentors’ guidance has made her big ideas feel possible. As one of GHELI’s former interns, Body exemplifies the Incubator’s mission to help promising global health leaders launch projects that will tackle global health issues and improve global health education.

Body, a recent 2024 graduate from Harvard College, has been working with the Incubator ever since she took Faculty Director [Sue J. Goldie’s](/people/sue-j-goldie-md-mph) course, GenEd 1063 *World Health: Challenges and Opportunities* in Spring 2022. Body has been developing a series of children’s books and accompanying educational materials to address child anxiety and the youth mental health crisis. She developed the first book in her series, [*Bluey’s Big Worries*](/gallery/bluey%E2%80%99s-big-worries), as her creative final project for the course. Now in the piloting phase of her work, Body is excited to see her efforts come to fruition.

Body, along with her fellow classmate and GHELI intern Aimee Ramirez, previously received help and mentorship from GHELI Associate Director of Educational Initiatives [Megan Harding](/people/megan-harding) and Multimedia Coordinator [Camilla Finlay](/people/camilla-finlay) setting up a series of [student workshops focused on exploring creative mediums](/news/learning-doing-student-workshops). In her work creating her book series, she primarily worked with Dr. Goldie and Harding, with additional support from Program Manager Ana Cristina Sedas.

Body said that speaking with Harding and Goldie was great for helping her drill down on the details: Which tools should she build into the books? Who are the primary stakeholders? What should the curriculum look like? These conversations not only helped Body narrow her focus to educators as the primary stakeholders, but they also helped her envision her books as something that could be so much bigger than a class project or material circulated for internal use—her books could actually make an impactful difference in young people’s lives. “I hope that these books will be used in classroom settings or afterschool settings. Libraries, guidance counselor’s offices, things like that,” said Body.

Under the mentorship of Goldie and Harding, Body was able to figure out the logistics of self-publishing a set of copies for her initial group of stakeholders to pilot test. Recently, she was able to personally pilot her curriculum with a group of K-5 students at the afterschool program where she works. Body aims to have around six activities with each book, and the series will also be accompanied by a resource pack containing a curated collection of reports, articles, fact sheets, and data on youth mental health. Body credits Sedas with teaching her how to think about creating a resource pack and narrow down resources.

Body said she feels a deep sense of gratitude for the mentorship she received at the Incubator. “It feels like we’re partners in the work,” she said. “It’s really cool because, yes, it’s my project and they’re helping to steer me along, but I feel like they’re so bought in, like they really are on my team.”

The experience of being mentored at GHELI “changed how I approach medicine,” Body expressed. She now feels medicine is more community-based and interdisciplinary than she initially thought. She hopes to bring that perspective with her to medical school in the fall, where she hopes to specialize in pediatric care.

This is the second in a series of articles highlighting mentorship at the Incubator. Read the first part of the series here: [A Safe Space To Fail: Mentorship at the Incubator](/news/safe-space-fail-mentorship-incubator).



 

 

 

   

What’s so special about the mentorship I’ve received is that they make the work feel accessible in a way where it's not telling you exactly what needs to be done, but they really work as partners with you, to challenge you to keep learning and growing, said Body. It’s such a special form of mentorship.

 

 

 



 

 

 

 



 

 

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