founding the Young Doctors Project​
Young Doctors DC (YDDC) grew out of the pressing health and education issues facing Southeast Washington. ​While the founders of YDDC were concerned about the poor health and education outcomes in this community, they also recognized the strengths, resilience, and the familial community bonds in Southeast. As a result, they married these familial bonds with the success of service learning, health ambassador, and Upward Bound programs, resulting in the idea for YDDC.
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As an American Educational Research Association (AERA) fellow at the University of California - Berkeley, Dr. Malcolm Woodland, a Washington, DC native, studied academically successful urban after school and out-of-school time programs. He later joined with his good friends, Dr. Kwame Torian Easterling, a professor of medicine in Newark, NJ and Mr. Roderick Miller, a middle school teacher in Richmond, VA to develop YDDC. ​After several others joined and made critical contributions to the organization, YDDC won the Bright Ideas Challenge​ sponsored by the DC Social Innovation Project; thus, providing the organization's seed funding to develop future Young Doctors!
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meet the Board
Teddy Wondwosen​
Mr. Teddy Wondwosen has spent a decade and a half working across various industries in the information technology space, consulting for companies across the east coast, subsequent to which he founded and ran a successful software consulting firm for the better part of 4 years.
Mr. Wondwosen joined Young Doctors DC as the director of Outreach and Communications, with the responsibility of serving as webmaster and site designer, along with sprearheading social media, outreach, and digital fundraiser activities on the technical side. Working with the organization's board, Mr. Wondwosen is tasked with increasing the organization's visibility by leveraging the networking power of digital media with the goal of increasing awareness and funding. Mr. Wondwosen attained his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Masters in Computer Systems Management at the University of Maryland, College Park.