… & Career Paths Area of Expertise Global Health Literacy & Language Pediatrics For 2017 graduate Sophie Bellenis, becoming an occupational therapist was a perfect … Fund. The nonprofit had been started by a close family friend, and it was here that she fell in love with the country’s people, landscapes, and community-based … children that they were working with had physical disabilities, and that’s where I saw the critical role that an occupational therapist can play,” she noted. “I …