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Appendix B: Biosketches of Speakers, Moderators, and Planning Committee Members
Appendix B: Biosketches of Speakers, Moderators, and Planning Committee Members
Pages 127-144
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In 2015, she was awarded the Barbara C Harris Award for Social Justice by the Episcopal City Mission in Boston, Massachusetts, for her founding of the Leadership Development Initiative.
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In Carrillo's new role, she is part of a team dedicated to tackling long-term systemic change to foster a thriving, just, healthy, and equitable region. Prior to this new leadership role, Carrillo served as the director for Del Norte and Tribal Land's Building Healthy Communities Initiative, a 10-year, place-based health initiative funded by The California Endowment and housed at the Wild Rivers Community Foundation (WRCF)
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Cutts has also served as the PI or the co-PI on dozens of grants, including those funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Komen Foundation, and the Avon Foundation, working often on projects to improve health equity and the lives of the underserved and most vulnerable. From 2001 to 2005, Cutts was the director of program development at the Church Health Center, a comprehensive, faith-based health program for the underserved.
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She is a graduate of the fourth cohort of Goldman Sach's 10,000 Small Businesses program and currently represents Sankofa on the Xavier University LaCats New Orleans Community Advisory Board, the Louisiana State University and the Southern University Ag Center Orleans Parish Advisory Leadership Council, the Mid South Transdisciplinary Collaborative Center on Health Disparities, the Greater New Orleans Water Collaborative, and the New Orleans Food Policy Advisory Committee. Julie Fernandes, J.D., is an associate director for institutional accountability and individual liberty at the Rockefeller Family Fund in New York.
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Prior to joining Healthy Richmond in 2013, Garza was a public health program manager for Contra Costa Health Services where she worked on environmental justice, alcohol policy, neighborhood improvements, and violence prevention efforts across Contra Costa County. Garza was the allocations and planning director for the United Way of Greater Los Angeles, Service Planning Area 1, and the program manager for El Nido Family Services, a social service nonprofit agency providing counseling and family support services to disadvantaged communities in Los Angeles County.
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Gunderson became involved in public health through his work with former President Jimmy Carter in Atlanta when he directed the Interfaith Health Program at the Carter Center for a decade. The Interfaith Health Program moved from the Carter Center to the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, where Gunderson became a research assistant professor in international health.
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Han has also been involved in numerous efforts to make academic work relevant to the world of practice, including participating in the Social Science Research Council Anxieties of Democracy Participation Working Group; co-chairing the Research Council of the PICO National Network, serving on the advisory board of organizations like research4impact, the Climate Advocacy Lab, the Citizens Climate Lobby, and the DEMOS Integrated Race and Class Narrative Project; serving as the co-chair of the Civic Engagement Working Group at the Scholars Strategy Network; co-founding and co-directing the Project on Public Leadership and Action at Wellesley College, and participating on the steering committee of the Gettysburg Project. Through her research, she partners with a wide range of civic and political organizations in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and elsewhere.
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, a national nonprofit organization focused on bringing the power of public health to campaigns and social movements for a just society. Under Heller's leadership for 14 years, HIP became a national public health leader focused on changing policies related to the social determinants of health by supporting community-organizing groups and campaigns with research and advocacy; conducting leadership development, capacity building, and political education with public health agencies; organizing the public health community; and supporting narrative change initiatives.
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In that role, he oversaw the creation of an innovative public health practice designed to eliminate health disparities by tackling the root causes of poor health that limit the quality of life and life span in many of California's low-income communities. He has worked as an HIV disability rights attorney at the Berkeley Community Law Center, a health care policy analyst with the Consumers Union West Coast Regional Office, and as a physician and an advocate for the homeless at the San Francisco Public Health Department.
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These initiatives include the California Fund for Youth Organizing, the Move to End Violence Initiative, the California Alliance for Boys and Men of Color, and Building Healthy Communities. Before launching MSC, James served as the director of youth policy and development at Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth, where he organized youth and community members around issues facing children, youth, and families.
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Milstein is a principal contributor to the ReThink Health initiative's Portfolio Design for Healthier Regions and Amplifying Stewardship Together projects. He also leads a suite of nationwide influence activities and coordinates ongoing development of the ReThink Health Dynamics Model, the Well-Being Portfolio Design
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in remote areas of Nicaragua to improve health equity through health systems integration. As a family physician and a public health professional, Parajón is part of a team of CHWs, health professionals, and educators that uses community-based participatory research, a community empowerment approach, to work alongside communities, reducing child mortality up to 80 percent in remote rural areas of Nicaragua.
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The campaign has catalyzed groundbreaking policy change in states, including the nation's first family caregiver benefit in Hawaii, and the first long-term care social insurance fund in Washington state. Poo is also a leading voice in the women's movement.
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Rodríguez also worked as a program officer at the New York State Health Foundation, and from 2004 to 2012, she co-directed the Urbanism and the Built Environment track in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. As a public health practitioner, and in both academic and philanthropic roles, she collaborates, develops, and evaluates initiatives to improve health with people most affected by health inequities.
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He has developed a Healthy Living Ministry at his church and provides a weekly free mobile health clinic in partnership with Wake Forest in the church's parking lot. Sostaita sits on the boards of the North Carolina Congress of Latino Organizations, the Hispanic League, and the Latino Network of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.
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Meme Styles, M.P.A., is the founder and the president of MEASURE, a nonprofit social enterprise that provides free data support to Blackand Brown-led organizations, while charging white-led organizations the full rate of MEASURE's services to contribute to this anti-racist revenue model. Despite the odds and recognizing the need for increased information and data activism, MEASURE's accomplishments include the launch of the Travis County Girl Squad mentorship program; starting a dataactivism course at Huston-Tillotson University; establishing an equity law in Pflugerville, Texas; advocating for the release of juveniles in response to COVID-19; led a study to help diversify philanthropy at the Austin Community Foundation; and advocated for the redistribution of funding from ineffective policing programs in exchange for evidence-based solutions.
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She has held other positions with the Jennifer Altman Foundation; the Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice; the Center for Environmental Citizenship; and the League of Conservation Voters Education Fund. She was the board chair for the Asian Pacific Environmental Network; a former public health commissioner in Alameda County, California; a former member of the advisory boards of CorpWatch and the Labor Occupational Health Program of the University of California; a former steering committee member of the Labor Innovations for the 21st Century Fund; and a past co-chair of the Saguaro Fund of the Funding Exchange.
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Yu is the author of numerous publications and is a contributing author to The Handbook on Leadership Development Evaluation. She received her Ph.D.
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