Jessica Joseph is a Community Capacity Building Manager in the Training & Capacity Building Department at HRiA. She has a strong interest in healthcare, public health and serving historically marginalized communities. Prior to joining HRiA, Ms. Joseph was a Community Health Worker under Mass General Brigham’s United Against Racism (UAR) initiative to promote racial and… Read more »
Kerniah Casseus is a Community Capacity Building Manager on the Training and & Capacity Building team at HRiA. Her interests include racial health equity, cultural and linguistic health education, addressing systemic health issues. Ms. Casseus earned her Bachelors of Arts in Public Health and Masters of Public Health at Regis College. In addition to her… Read more »
Karla Salinas Whatcott is a Projects and Marketing Associate for the National Association of Community Health Workers (NACHW). Before she joined NACHW in March 2022, she worked as a Marketing Assistant, designing advertising materials, reviewing and editing blogs, and tracking content performance. As a Spanish native speaker, she has volunteered as a translator for hospital… Read more »
Victoria Tran is a Research Associate for the Research and Evaluation Team at HRiA. She has experience in qualitative research, project management, and community engagement. Her interests include racial equity, reproductive health, and health policy. Prior to joining HRiA, she worked as a Policy and Advocacy Specialist at Health Equity Solutions where she supported efforts… Read more »
Amanda Irizarry is a Senior Program Manager on the Training and Capacity Building team at Health Resources in Action, providing program management for The 84 Movement and FDA Tobacco Compliance Check Program. As a Philly native, Amanda has dedicated the last 12 years of her personal and professional life to ensuring every young person she… Read more »
Janene Brown, PhD, is a Senior Coordinator, Research & Evaluation at the HAVI, a fiscally-sponsored program at HRiA. She is leading a research study assessing the impacts of a hospital-based violence intervention program to support evidence-based investments in violence prevention. Janene is an epidemiologist with a focus on health equity, dismantling systemic racism, and reducing… Read more »
Seth serves as the Director of Operations for the HAVI, a fiscally-sponsored program at HRiA. He supports the organization in realizing its vision through operational efficiency and organizational management. Prior to joining the HAVI, Seth served as an assistant principal of instruction and teacher coach in the Philadelphia public school system. As an educator in… Read more »
Claudia Zavala serves as strategy and impact manager at the HAVI, a fiscally-sponsored program at HRiA. Previously, she served as a research assistant at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, one of the highest-ranked universities in Peru. In this role, she conducted a study examining predictors of psychological growth in marginalized communities impacted by trauma. With… Read more »
Jermaine Belcher serves as the senior coordinator for policy and advocacy at the HAVI, a fiscally-sponsored program at HRiA. He joined the organization with over twenty years of experience providing advocacy to communities impacted by violence and trauma. Prior to joining the HAVI, Jermaine provided staff development and coaching to direct service providers and strategic… Read more »
DeAngelo Mack serves as senior advisor for training and technical assistance at the HAVI, a fiscally-sponsored program at HRiA. Also he serves as equity justice director for Public Health Advocates, where he oversees California state policy efforts to create or change laws centered around trauma and health disparities. In his role at the HAVI, Mr…. Read more »
Maria Dueñas Lopez is a Program Associate of The 84 Movement within the Training and Capacity Building Department. Maria has committed their life to create more inclusive spaces that empower BIPOC groups to create sustainable change in their communities. Maria has worked within the tobacco control field as a youth activist for the last 7 years… Read more »
Edward Alexander is a Senior Communication Associate on the Health and Racial Equity cluster at HRiA. He provides communication support to a range of projects promoting health and racial equity across the organization. Prior to HRiA, Edward served as a Communication Specialist at the Mass General Center for Global Health and has extensive experience as… Read more »
Ana Maria Delarosa is a Managing Director of Healthy & Equitable Communities at HRiA. Ms.Delarosa’s career is rooted in supporting historically oppressed and marginalized communities through grantmaking, organizing, technical assistance, and capacity building. Her previous experience ranges from supporting localized farmworker movements, national immigration policy campaigns, and international climate justice advocacy. She has a BA… Read more »
Anna Thordarson is an Administrative Coordinator in the Training and Capacity Building team at HRiA. In this role, she supports the Gun Violence Prevention Training Center for Excellence, the Opioid Overdose Prevention team, and the Rhode Island HEZ Project. As a recent graduate from the University of San Francisco with a BA in Political Science… Read more »
Andrea Maruniak is the Senior Communications Manager with the HAVI, a fiscally sponsored program of HRiA. She joined the organization in January 2021 with over a decade of experience in communications and media, including at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the National Women’s Law Center in Washington, D.C., where she served… Read more »
Tina Nappi, MSW, LICSW is the Director of Organizational Growth and Equity at the HAVI, a fiscally-sponsored program at HRiA. For more than 25 years, Tina has been committed to work that centers the safety, well-being and self-determination of people impacted by interpersonal and structural violence. As an advocate, program director and consultant, she has… Read more »
Princess Fortin serves as the Director of Strategic Planning for the HAVI, a fiscally-sponsored program at HRiA. She works to develop and operationalize projects with external partners and oversee the coordination of research projects. Princess is a public health professional with a focus on social justice and advancing racial equity. Prior to joining the HAVI,… Read more »
Kyndra Simmons is a nationally recognized expert in urban violence prevention, bringing over 25 years of experience working with at-risk youth and families to her role as Director of Frontline Training and Technical Assistance at the HAVI, a fiscally-sponsored program at HRiA. She oversees the development and implementation of the HAVI’s Violence Prevention Professional (VPP)… Read more »
Maribel De la Huerta is a Contracts Administrator on the Administration and Finance team at HRiA. Ms. De la Huerta has a Master of Public Administration with a Public Policy and Management concentration, and a Bachelor of Business Administration from The University of Texas at El Paso. She has over 10 years of experience working… Read more »
Destiny Teasley is a Systems and Operations Coordinator for the Health and Racial Equity team at HRiA. She has experience in communication development, strategic planning, system implementation and tracking and trending data analysis. Prior to joining HRiA, she worked as a Quality Assurance Associate for BPL Plasma where she was responsible for ensuring quality procedures… Read more »
Leticia Gatlin is a Program Coordinator for the COVID-19 Community Grants Program at HRiA. She provides administrative support for the program’s team. Prior to joining HRiA, Ms. Gatlin worked as an Administrative Assistant for another nonprofit organization. This nonprofit eventually became one of the COVID-19 Grants Program’s grantees. Ms. Gatlin earned a BA in Writing,… Read more »
Amber Ross is a Contract Administrator on the Administration and Finance team at HRiA, working with our fiscally sponsored programs. Mrs. Ross has spent her entire career in the non-profit sector and has extensive experience developing and tracking projects, proposals, budgets, and contracts. Prior to joining HRiA, she spearheaded the development of a grant training… Read more »
Lauren Bard is a Senior Training Manager on the Training and Capacity Building team at HRiA. She works on the BEST Initiative and Youth Worker Certification program as well as the Community Health Training Initiative. Lauren has many years of experience supporting young people and families in the City of Boston. Before joining HRiA, Lauren… Read more »
Jonathan Ogunleye is a Program Associate for the LEAH Project at HRiA. Before joining HRiA, he received his Master of Social Work degree from Boston University in 2019. While attending BU, Jonathan interned at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, supporting students in several different areas, but mainly with college access. He has also previously… Read more »
Neena Schultz is the Strategic Projects Manager for the National Association of Community Health Workers (NACHW), a fiscally sponsored program of HRiA. Neena is a public health social worker with a broad range of experience in public health and social work fields, with a focus on program development and applied research. She has worked on… Read more »
Andrea Martemus-Peters is the Manager, Peer Learning for The HAVI, a fiscally-sponsored program at HRiA. She is a licensed social worker and earned her Master of Science and Social Administration from Case Western Reserve University. Prior to joining HRiA, she worked for The Cleveland Clinic in Community Outreach. She worked with a multidisciplinary team to… Read more »
Camerino I. Salazar is a Director of Research and Evaluation at HRiA. His training, scholarly interests, and work experience have focused on health inequities, health service delivery and social determinants of health. He holds a Master of Science in Sociology from the University of Texas at San Antonio (Texas) and is currently pursuing a Ph.D…. Read more »
Alberte Altiné-Gibson is a Managing Director of Racial Equity Grantmaking at HRiA and serves as director for the Massachusetts Community Health and Healthy Aging Funds. Prior to joining HRiA, she worked at the Bowdoin Street Health Center (BSHC) where she was responsible for overseeing all community health related activities/projects addressing social determinants and grants management…. Read more »
Kim Sudderth is a Senior Manager, Strategy & Facilitation on the Strategic Planning & Organizational Effectiveness team at HRiA. Prior to joining HRiA, she worked for climate advocacy focusing on amplifying the voices and empowering the leadership of women and mothers. She holds a B.A. in Sociology with a Specialization in Diversity and Inequality from… Read more »
Lindsay Redman Rivera joined the Biomedical Research Grantmaking team as a Grants Officer in 2021. Prior to joining HRiA, she received a B.S. in Biochemistry from New Mexico State University followed by a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Vanderbilt University, where she studied mechanisms of tumorigenesis in epithelial cancers. Dr. Redman Rivera has a broad scientific… Read more »
Eliza Campbell is a Senior Manager of Planning & Facilitation on the Strategic Planning & Organizational Effectiveness team at HRiA. Prior to joining HRiA, she worked in sexual violence prevention where she gained experience building partnerships, managing volunteers, and facilitating workshops with providers, schools, art museums, church groups, and more. Eliza holds a Master of… Read more »
Kristin Mikolowsky is a Director on the Research and Evaluation team at HRiA. She has extensive experience conducting qualitative and quantitative research with a focus on analyzing data to help health care and public health organizations identify priorities for programming, policy change, and funding. Ms. Mikolowsky has led numerous community health needs assessments for health… Read more »
Ariadna Capasso is a Director of Research and Evaluation at HRiA. She is a behavioral scientist with extensive expertise in research and evaluation with a focus on sexual and reproductive health and substance use disorders. In her role, she oversees a number of health assessments and evaluations. She has significant experience in planning, implementing and… Read more »
Stephanie Walker is a Research Associate on the Research & Evaluation team at HRIA. She has extensive experience in data visualization, qualitative data methods, project management, writing for technical and general audiences, and collaborating with community organizations. Prior to joining HRiA, she evaluated education-focused programs and served as part of the evaluation team on a… Read more »
Nora Daly is a Research Analyst on the Research & Evaluation team at HRiA. She supports a variety of assessment and evaluation projects with a focus on quantitative data analysis. Prior to joining HRiA, Nora worked as Director of Programs and Community Engagement for the Northern Virginia Affordable Housing Alliance, where she led the organization’s… Read more »
Tesia Burzynski is the Budget and Contracts Coordinator on the Administration and Finance team at HRIA. She has extensive experience in diversity and equity work through volunteer leadership positions, travelling domestically and to Durán, Ecuador to assist in community building work. Tesia has previously worked in operations in a quality critical manufacturing environment
Sowmya is a Screening & Information Specialist with the Helplines at HRiA. Sowmya started at HRiA in the Summer of 2021. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Keene State College and plans to obtain a Master’s in the future. She is enthusiastic about wanting everyone to have equal access to opportunities and… Read more »
Tina Ta is part of HRiA’s Biomedical Research Grantmaking team as a Grants Officer. She holds a M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University. Her research has focused on addictive disorders and developing techniques to target specific brain structures. Tina has experience in project management, event planning, and customer service. She is passionate about racial… Read more »
Ilana Raskind is a Senior Research Scientist at HRiA. She has extensive experience in the academic and non-profit sectors and is skilled in research design, data collection, and advanced quantitative and qualitative analytic techniques, including geospatial analysis. She has applied these skills to diverse public health issues including food insecurity, tobacco control policy, physical activity,… Read more »
Paul Gregg is a Program Associate with the LEAH Project at HRiA. He works with youth in the LEAH Project’s biomedical research track, supporting them in pursuing STEM internships, mentorship opportunities, and college and career readiness. Prior to joining HRiA, Paul conducted behavioral science research within the fields of effective philanthropy and education in labs… Read more »
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