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Appendix E: Speaker and Moderator Biographies
Appendix E: Speaker and Moderator Biographies
Pages 85-94
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Prior to his current position, Mr. Angelo served as the Chairman of Log Cabin Republicans of New York State, where he led Log Cabin Republicans as part of New Yorkers United for Marriage, a coalition that collaborated to make marriage equality legal through legislative vote for the first time in a Republican-controlled legislature.
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She is an active board member of numerous organizations, including Californians for Pesticide Reform, and Californians for a Healthy and Green Economy. She also co-founded the Los Angeles County Asthma Coalition and the Coalition for Environmental Health and Justice, and was appointed to Cal/Environmental Protection Agency's Environmental Justice Committee and the California Air Resources Board's Global Warming Environmental Justice Advisory Committee.
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Formerly as Associate Director of the Real Estate Department at East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation, her role spanned planning and advocacy as well as real estate development of office, retail, multifamily residential and for-sale single family homes. She has assembled and managed complex mixed-use real estate development projects ranging $4 million to $50 million from site acquisition through planning entitlements and construction to operations and/ or sales.
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He has worked as an HIV disability rights attorney at the Berkeley Community Law Center, a health care policy analyst with Consumers Union West Coast Regional Office, and as a physician and advocate for the homeless at the San Francisco Public Health Department. Dr. Iton's primary focus includes health of disadvantaged populations and the contributions of race, class, wealth, education, geography, and employment to health status.
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Larkin directed the Foundation's Public Health team in its work to improve federal, state, and local public health systems, build the evidence for effective public health practice and policy, and advocate for the use of law and policy to improve health. From 2003 through 2006, she co-led the Foundation's Tobacco team, promoting increased tobacco excise taxes, state and local smoke-free air laws, and funding for tobacco prevention and treatment.
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Paul-Ramsey County Department of Public Health, and a clinical assistant professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota. She is a board-certified general internist and serves on several community boards, including Minnesota Community Measurement and NorthPoint Health and Wellness Center, a federally qualified health center.
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Other top priorities are: increasing advocacy for public policy and health reform, and addressing health workforce shortages and the impacts of climate change on public health. Under Dr.
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Working at the intersection of health and organizing, ISAIAH has led two significant, community-led health impact assessments funded by the Health Impact Project, one on the built environment and the other looking at education equity and integration policies.
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She leads the organization's health team, with work focusing on healthy food access, improving the built environment, and the systemic integration of health equity. A significant component of her work involves exploring community factors that impact health and identifying effective solutions.
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A board-certified family practitioner, continues a small clinical practice at Asian Health Services, a federally qualified health center in Oakland, California, where he served previously as Medical Director.
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