Katie Collins is the Senior Program Manager for the LEAH Project at HRiA. She previously worked in the educational travel industry for 8 years developing travel programs for teachers and their students. She is passionate about designing travel experiences that prioritize inclusive storytelling and encourage students to be curious, ask questions, and grow in their… Read more »
Wesley Carty is a STEM Teaching Track Program Associate for the LEAH Project at HRIA. Wesley has experience working with youth in various capacities, such as teaching, mentoring youth groups and supervising youth workforce teams. Wesley is currently focused on youth workforce development and hopes to eventually become an affordable psychologist for communities of color.
Kelli Bornes is a Budget Analyst at HRiA. She has a background in accounting and business administration and is passionate about learning and teaching others. She has her degree in Elementary Education, which she puts to use in her free time volunteering in the education department at her local wildlife rehab center.
Dr. Lauren Ferreira Cardoso is the Managing Director of Data, Research, and Evaluation at the HAVI, a fiscally-sponsored program at HRiA. Dr. Cardoso has 15 years of experience leading research on interpersonal violence, community safety, and health equity. Her work is conducted in partnership with global institutions, state agencies, and community-based organizations in an effort… Read more »
Manuela Torres is the Senior Manager CVI Ecosystems at The HAVI, a fiscally-sponsored program at HRiA. Manuela has over ten years of experience designing and overseeing awareness and behavioral change campaigns and social research social for the nonprofit sector, government agencies, and international cooperation agencies. Manuela has supported programs on issues such as international irregular… Read more »
Dimitrios Booras is a Senior Community Capacity Building Manager on the Training & Capacity Building team at HRiA. Prior to joining HRiA, he worked with The Center for Hope and Healing and UTEC. He has a BA in English with a focus on Journalism and Professional Writing from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell.
Hannah DeMoss serves as the Senior Program Manager for Training and Technical Assistance at the HAVI, a fiscally-sponsored program at HRiA. Previous to the HAVI, Hannah was the Family Support Coordinator at Boston Medical Center’s Violence Intervention and Advocacy Program. In this role, she supported the loved ones of victims of community violence and homicide… Read more »
Heidi Klein is a Managing Director of Healthy and Equitable Communities at HRiA. Ms. Klein brings 30+ years of strategic public health leadership working with leaders at the national, state, and local level to create healthy and equitable communities through public policy, cross-sector engagement, and community action. Her practice focuses on leading governmental innovation, guiding… Read more »
Phoebe Fong is a Project Manager on the Web team at HRiA. Prior to joining HRiA in 2022, she was a COVID-19 Case Investigator and Unit Lead for the Community Tracing Collaborative at Partners in Health, which was deployed as part of Massachusetts’s emergency pandemic response. Phoebe graduated from Mount Holyoke College with a Bachelor… Read more »
Tracy Kelley is the Director of the MA COVID-19 Community Grants Program in the Training and Capacity Building (TCB) department at HRiA. Before joining HRiA, Tracy served as the Director of the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project (and continues to serve there as a language instructor) and Director of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Youth Department. Tracy… Read more »
Fatimah leads the HAVI as its first executive director, a fiscally-sponsored program at HRiA. Her vision for social change has been shaped by a rich heritage of resilience in the wake of harm, from her father’s incarceration to her family’s experiences with homelessness. She believes that it is the expansion of healing support and relationships,… Read more »
Albaney Gray is a Program Associate on the Grantmaking team at HRiA. Albaney received her B.S. in Psychology from Florida A&M University and her Master of Public Health with a Maternal and Child Health concentration from Florida International University. Ms. Gray has experience in capacity building, community outreach, and cross-sector collaboration. She has a passion… Read more »
Donn Young is a Capacity Building Assistance Manager at HRiA. Mr. Young has extensive experience in program and operations management, recovery support services, and stakeholder engagement. He spent his early career with International Data Group (IDG) and its subsidiaries, in tradeshow operations and program development. More recently, he worked in several statewide agencies providing coaching,… Read more »
Anna Thompson serves as Manager, Training & Technical Assistance for the HAVI, a fiscally-sponsored program at HRiA. Anna has extensive experience in advocacy for survivors of sexual and domestic violence, program outreach, and training in violence prevention such as bystander intervention. Prior to joining the HAVI, she lead the response to sexual assault on a… Read more »
Winston Daley is a Senior Training Manager at HRiA. He received his bachelor’s degree in Business and Entrepreneurial Studies from Suffolk University and his master’s in Sports Leadership from Northeastern University. Winston began his career in financial services working on the long-term investment portfolios or large institutional clients. After 12 years in the private sector,… Read more »
Jen Slonaker is a Vice President at HRiA with an extensive background in executive leadership and development of effective public health interventions and serves as a state and national expert on sex education and sexual health. Prior to joining HRiA, she led the development of the curriculum, Get Real: Sex Education That Works, included on… Read more »
Erna Alfred Liousas is the Managing Director, Marketing and Business Development at HRiA. Her work at American Express, Raytheon, boutique consulting firms, a global market research firm, and as an entrepreneur contributes to her strategy, marketing, customer experience, and process expertise. She is passionate about the power of connection between people and technology to drive… Read more »
Amy is a Senior Staff Accountant at HRiA. She focuses on personnel allocation, monthly reconciliations, and process improvements. Prior to joining HRiA, she gained extensive experience in accounting and reporting for nonprofit organizations, where she focused on month-end closing, budgeting, grants reporting, and monthly reconciliations. Amy graduated with a BBA in accounting from Iona University.
Toni Rivera serves as the Managing Director, Communities of Practice for the HAVI, a fiscally-sponsored program of HRiA. Ms. Rivera brings over twenty eight years of non-profit management experience and expertise working with underserved populations, at-risk children and families and advocating for social justice, equity and self- sufficiency across non-profit sectors. Ms. Rivera spent ten… Read more »
Dan F. is a person in long term recovery that is working as a Screening and Information Specialist on the Helplines team at HRiA. Dan is a happily married father of two amazing boys that mean the world to him. Dan finds that helping others find their way on their recovery journey is something that… Read more »
Firdaus B. is a Screening and Information Specialist II with the Helplines at HRiA. She obtained a BA in History with a minor in Biology from Loyola University – Chicago and is currently working on her Master’s in Clinical Psychology at Benedictine University. Prior to working for HRiA, Firdaus worked as an EMT in the… Read more »
Anthony Boone Jr. is a Manager on the Strategic Planning and Organizational Effectiveness team at HRiA. Prior to HRiA, Anthony worked as a Public Health Associate in the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Public Health Associate Program (PHAP) and was stationed in Albuquerque, New Mexico working for the University of New Mexico’s Center… Read more »
Chris Cobb is a Capacity Building Assistance Manager with HRiA, focusing on capacity building and grantmaking for problem gambling projects. Chris has over a decade of professional experience in public health, across multiple states, topics, and approaches. In addition to public health, Chris is also a singer who currently performs in the Josephine’s cabaret series… Read more »
Cynthia Espinosa Marrero is a Senior Manager in the Health and Racial Equity cluster at HRiA. Cynthia has extensive experience in community engagement, racial and equity advocacy which led to be featured in Latina Magazine as a Latinx Changemaker in 2018 and recognized as a Commonwealth Heroines class of 2022 by the MA Commission of… Read more »
Andrew Woods serves as a senior advisor for training and technical assistance at the HAVI, a fiscally-sponsored program at HRiA. He also serves as the executive director of Hartford Communities That Care that oversees the Hartford Care Response Team (HCRT), a HAVI member Hospital Linked Violence Intervention Program (HVIP) in the State of Connecticut. For… Read more »
Kerniah Casseus is a Manager on the Strategic Planning and Organizational Effectiveness 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 interests, Ms. Casseus… Read more »
Victoria Tran is a Senior 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… 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 »
Edward Alexander is a Senior Manager of Health Communication 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… 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 a Program Associate on the Training and Capacity Building team at HRiA. In this role, she supports the Gun Violence Prevention Training Center for Excellence, the BeHERE Initiative, and the Rhode Island HEZ Project. As a recent graduate from the University of San Francisco with a BA in Political Science and a… 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, serves as the HAVI’s Managing Director of Organizational Growth and Equity. She brings 30 years of experience in public health, health care responses to violence, and programming that centers the wisdom and leadership of survivors of interpersonal and structural violence. Tina has designed, implemented, led, and evaluated health care-based violence intervention programs…. 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 Senior 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… Read more »
Maribel De la Huerta is a Budget Analyst 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 »
