Profile Archives

11.14.2022 Melissa Chinchilla

Melissa Chinchilla

Melissa Chinchilla works at the intersection of homelessness and health. She is researcher with the Veterans Affairs Los Angeles Center for the Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation, and Policy.

Fellow Bethany Hallenborg

11.08.2022 Ian Rowe

Ian Rowe

Ian Rowe, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and co-founder of Vertex Partnership Academies, talks about drivers of success and challenges in education.

Fellow Barbara Espinosa

11.03.2022

Regina Wu

Regina Wu is a primary care physician and president of the Newton Food Pantry.

Fellow Barbara Espinosa

10.20.2022 Marcela Howell

Marcela Howell

Marcela Howell is president and CEO of In Our Own Voice: National Black Women's Reproductive Agenda, a national state partnership of eight Black women's reproductive justice organizations.

Fellow Barbara Espinosa

10.07.2022 Theoharis

Health Equity

Liz Theoharis

Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis is co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, director of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary, an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), and a lecturer at Union Theological Seminary in New York City.

Fellow Abby Outterson

09.30.2022 a man in a white coat with a stethoscope around his neck

Health Equity

Utibe R. Essien

Utibe R. Essien, MD, MPH is an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and a general internist and health disparities researcher at the VA Pittsburgh Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion.

Fellow Abby Outterson

09.23.2022 a man wearing a crown and sunglasses

Emile DeWeaver

Emile DeWeaver is an activist and author whose life sentence was commuted after 21 years for his community work in prison. The co-founder of Prison Renaissance, DeWeaver also covertly organized to pass legislation that changed the way California treats juveniles in its criminal legal system while in prison.

Fellow Hannah Tremont

09.21.2022 a woman with curly hair smiling

Health Equity

Heidi Porter

Heidi Porter is a local public health director who is used to getting calls for the unusual and the mundane. She delivers public health services in Bedford, Mass., from a broad, whole health perspective, relying on a multidisciplinary health and human services team.

Editor Teresa Wood Kett

07.08.2022 a collage of women with a yellow background

Marcella Alsan and Crystal Yang

Crystal Yang and Marcella Alsan are researching healthcare accreditation in correctional facilities.

Fellow Abby Outterson

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