Candice Woodcock - Biography

Biography

Candice Woodcock Cody graduated from Terry Sanford High School in 2001, where she was president of her class and captain of the soccer and cross country teams. She received a perfect score on the math portion of her SATs. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on the Morehead-Cain Scholarship in 2005 with a double major in biology and psychology and a minor in chemistry.

She was inspired to do service work in Africa upon watching Survivor: Africa - spending almost 3 months living in a mud hut with a tribal family. She also taught primary and secondary school in Africa, and created her own service project where she managed a clinic that distributed over 700 pairs of eyeglasses. Later, she became a fund raising director and then executive director of Students for Students International at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Apart from doing humanitarian activities, she enjoys spending time with her family and friends, working out, playing sports, being in the water, and playing with her dogs.

Candice also spent a summer studying health care in Chile and Peru and another summer splitting her time between work at the Cancer Clinic at George Washington University Hospital and La Clinica del Pueblo, a free Latino clinic in Washington, D.C.

She currently resides in Washington D.C. She received her MS in physiology from Georgetown University and then graduated from the medical school at George Washington University. On May 1, 2010, Candice Woodcock married her fiance, John Cody.