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Antonia M. Villarruel, PhD, RN, FAAN, is the Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and Director of the School’s WHO Collaborating Center for Nursing and Midwifery Leadership. As a bilingual and bicultural researcher, Dr. Villarruel has extensive research and practice experience with Latino populations, health promotion, and disparities. She currently co-leads the NIH funded Philadelphia Community Engagement Alliance to address COVID-19 Inequities (CEAL) a coalition to optimize the rollout and real-time evaluation of interventions focused on COVID-19 disparities across diverse populations within the Philadelphia region. Dr. Villarruel holds many leadership positions. She is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, an elected member of the 911������ Academy of Medicine and the College of Physicians of Philadelphia; she serves as Chair of the 911������ Academy of Medicine (NAM) Culture of Health Program Advisory Committee, Chair of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellows Subcommittee for the Selection Review Process and Co-chair of the Strategic Advisory Council of the AARP/RWJ Future of Nursing Campaign for Action. She has received numerous honors and awards including the 2021 Health Care Leader Award from the American Academy of Nursing, the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame Award, the Globy Award for Educational Leadership from the Global Philadelphia Association, and the prestigious Ohtli Award from the government of Mexico.

Hortensia de los Angeles Amaro, PhD, has dramatically advanced the understanding of substance abuse disorder treatment, HIV prevention and other urgent public health challenges through a distinguished career that has spanned scholarly research, translation of science to practice, top-level policy consultation and service on four Institute of Medicine committees. She has authored more than 130 scholarly publications, many widely-cited, and she has made landmark contributions to improving behavioral health care in community-based organizations by launching addiction treatment programs that have helped thousands of families and informing practice in agencies around the world.

Before joining USC in 2012, Amaro was with Northeastern University for 10 years,��serving as dean, as well as distinguished professor of health sciences and counseling psychology,��of the Bouvé College of Health Sciences, and as director of the university’s Institute on Urban Health Research. For 18 years prior to that, she was professor in the Boston University School of Public Health and in the Department of Pediatrics at the Boston University School of Medicine. She received her doctorate in psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1982 and was awarded honorary doctoral degrees in humane letters by Simmons College in 1994 and the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology in 2012.

Over the last 30 years, Amaro has forged vital connections between public health research and practice. Her studies have focused on alcohol and drug use and addiction among adolescents and adults; the development and testing of behavioral interventions for HIV/AIDS prevention, including innovative HIV prevention models targeted to Latina and African American women; substance abuse and mental health treatment for Latina and African American women and incarcerated men; alcohol and drug use among college populations; and behavioral interventions for HIV medications adherence.

Dr. Robynn Cox is an assistant professor in the School of Public Policy at the University of California, Riverside, faculty affiliate at the UC Riverside Presley Center for Crime & Justice, fellow at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics and senior scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis’ Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute (OIGI). Previously, she was an assistant professor at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work and a faculty affiliate at the USC Edward R. Royal Institute on Aging and the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics. Her research interests include the fields of crime, health, labor, housing, food insecurity, and social and racial inequality. She is primarily an inequality researcher who is concerned with understanding the social and economic consequences of criminal justice policies in general, and mass incarceration in particular. Specifically, her work focuses on how to successfully transition individuals impacted by mass incarceration policies back into society using a life course approach.�� Her life course approach to reentry has three pillars: systemic/institutional barriers to reentry (macro), family and community (mezzo), and the individual (micro).

Because of the housing barriers faced by the formerly incarcerated (and marginalized groups disproportionately impacted by mass incarceration), Cox (and colleagues) has taken the lead in developing a global definition and approach to improve the measurement of housing insecurity based on the development of the food insecurity measure.�� Her work purports that there are seven dimensions of housing insecurity: housing stability, housing affordability, housing safety, housing quality, neighborhood safety, neighborhood quality, and homelessness. Much like food insecurity, individuals that are income constrained will face tradeoffs across these factors to secure housing.�� Her work has led to the conceptualization and incorporation of a pilot housing insecurity module within the 2019 American Housing Survey (AHS).

Most recently Cox received a small grant from the Washington Center for Equitable Growth to investigate the effect of California’s Proposition 47 on labor market outcomes of low-skilled minorities.�� In AY 2018-2019, Cox was selected as a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis’ Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute (OIGI) and a Kelso Fellow at the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations’ Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing to explore how Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) impact the labor market outcomes of the formerly incarcerated.�� In AY 2014-2015, she was selected as a Resource Center for Minority Aging Research Scholar (funded by the NIA) at the USC Schaeffer Center, where her research explored the impact of incarceration on health outcomes over the lifespan. Cox has received additional funding from the Russell Sage Foundation, the USDA Food and Nutrition Services, and the University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research.

Cox has published in various academic and policy outlets such as Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Neuropharmacology, Justice Quarterly, Research on Social Work Practice (in press), Cityscape, Generations: Journal of the American Society on Aging, Journal of Labor Research, Southern Economic Journal,�����Ի� Review of Black Political Economy. In addition, she has presented her research at numerous professional conferences and has been featured on both locally and nationally syndicated news programs such as CNN, NPR, and KNX-CBS. She was also featured in the documentary film . Prior to her appointment at USC, Cox was an assistant professor of economics at Spelman College and a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Economics at Duke University. She earned her master’s degree and doctorate in economics from Georgia State University, where she was awarded the Andrew Young Fellowship. Cox completed her undergraduate studies at Duke University, where she double majored in economics and Spanish and Latin American studies.

�� Amy Hannah has 24 years of experience in building community capacity and addressing social determinants of health. As the Network Director, Amy directs the local Healthy in the Hills Network with area partners including social service agencies and people with lived experience to drive local health improvement. She is trained as a Local Improvement Advisor as part of the 100 Million Healthier Lives Initiative: Spreading Community Accelerators through Learning and Evaluation. She has experience with co-design in the community, building partnerships and tracking impact. Amy convenes leaders to enact change ideas through data driven decision making and facilitates meaningful engagement of individuals with lived experience. Amy is also the Executive Director of the Mingo County Family Resource Network where she has served to mobilize community programming and services to support children and families.

�� Patrick “Pat” DeLeon, PhD, JD, MPH, is the Distinguished Professor at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (DoD) in the School of Nursing and School of Medicine. He was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the 911������ Academies of Science in 2008 and served as President of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2000.�� For over 38 years he was on the staff of U.S. Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) retiring as his Chief of Staff. He has received numerous national awards including the Order of Military Medical Merit; Distinguished Service Medal, USUHS; 911������ League for Nursing Council for Nursing Centers, First Public Policy Award; Sigma Theta Tau, Inc., International Honor Society of Nursing, First Public Service Award; Ruth Knee/Milton Wittman Award for Outstanding Achievement in Health/Mental Health Policy, NASW; Delta Omega Honor Society Award for Outstanding Alumnus from a School of Public Health; APA Outstanding Lifetime Contributions to Psychology Award; American Psychological Foundation Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement in the Practice of Psychology; and Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Hawaii. He has been awarded three honorary degrees. He is currently the editor of Psychological Services. He has over 200 publications.

Wendy Ellis, DrPH, MPH, is an Assistant Professor in Global Health and the Founding Director of the Center for Community Resilience at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University. Dr. Ellis has spent the last decade developing and working to grow a ‘resilience movement’ to address systemic inequities that contribute to social and health disparities that are often transmitted in families and communities from generation to generation.

The Building Community Resilience (BCR) collaborative and networks are implementing the BCR process — a strategic approach for cross-sector partners to align resources, programs and initiatives with community based efforts to address adverse childhood experiences and adverse community environments– or as Ellis has coined it “The Pair of ACEs”.The strengths based approach is aimed at building the infrastructure to promote resilience in communities by improving access to supports and buffers that help individuals ‘bounce back’ and communities thrive. The BCR process is being used in ten regions that include major cities such as Cincinnati, OH; Dallas, TX; Portland, OR; Washington, DC, Baltimore, MD, St. Louis and Kansas City, MO and Seattle and Tacoma, Washington, Cambridge, Massachusetts and Louisville, KY.

In 2019, Dr. Ellis launched the Resilience Catalysts in Public Health using a novel framework that leverages local public health departments as Chief Health Strategists in the resilience movement. Dr. Ellis co-authored an article detailing the BCR process, “A New Framework for Addressing Adverse Childhood and Community Experiences: The Building Community Resilience Model” which can be found in the September 2017 Journal of Academic Pediatrics. In 2018 Dr. Ellis was selected as an Aspen Institute Ascend Fellow to support her leadership in developing cross-sector strategies to address childhood trauma, foster equity and build community resilience.

Jacob “Jake” Fitisemanu Jr., MPH, was born in New Zealand/Aotearoa to Karen Dang (Kaimukī, Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi) and Jacob Fitisemanu Sr. (Falefā, ʻUpolu, Sāmoa) and raised in Hawaiʻi and Utah. Jake holds a master’s degree in Public Health from Westminster College and works for Intermountain Healthcare as a Community Health Program Manager. He was appointed by President Obama to the President’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders in 2015 and was also appointed to the US Census 911������ Advisory Committee for two terms. Jake co-founded the Utah Pacific Islander Health Coalition (which he has chaired since 2011), sits on the Huntsman Cancer Institute Community Advisory Board, and teaches community health dynamics as an associate instructor at the University of Utah. He lives with his wife and two daughters in West Valley City where he founded the Healthy West Valley Initiative and was recently re-elected as a member of the City Council.

J. Nadine Gracia, MD, MSCE, is the President and CEO of Trust for America’s Health (TFAH), a nonprofit, nonpartisan public health policy, research and advocacy organization in Washington, DC that promotes optimal health for every person and community and that envisions a nation where prevention and health equity are foundational to policymaking at all levels of society. Dr. Gracia is a national health equity leader with extensive leadership and management experience in federal government, the nonprofit sector, academia, and professional associations. Before being appointed President and CEO, she served as TFAH’s Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. Prior to joining TFAH, Dr. Gracia served in the Obama Administration as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health and Director of the Office of Minority Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). In that capacity, she directed departmental policies and programs to end health disparities and advance health equity, and provided executive leadership on administration priorities including the Affordable Care Act and My Brother’s Keeper. Previously, she served as Chief Medical Officer in the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, where her portfolio included adolescent health, emergency preparedness, environmental health and climate change, global health, and the White House Council on Women and Girls. Prior to that role, she was appointed as a White House Fellow at HHS and worked in the Office of the First Lady on the development of the Let’s Move! initiative to solve childhood obesity. A first-generation Haitian-American, Dr. Gracia is active in many civic, professional, and academic organizations. She serves as a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network, the Dean’s Council at the University of Maryland School of Public Health, the Governing Board of the Council on Black Health, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, and Women of Impact.

As part of a team dedicated to building a culture of health, Jenny brings together the resources and partnerships to support a portfolio of clinic and community projects. Interests include healthy food access, community health workers, rural innovation and peer networks.

Jeff Hutchinson, MD, COL (ret), served 25 years as an Army Physician before retiring and moving to Austin. His combat, clinical and academic leadership experience provides the expertise in strategic planning, communication and education to help organizations address change and resolve conflicts. He is an Adolescent Medicine specialist working part time at People’s Community Clinic, a Federally Qualified Health Center. As a former Chief Diversity Officer and Associate Dean at the only military medical school he possesses the skills necessary to guide organizations desiring to improve their equity, diversity and inclusion efforts he also founded The Wade Alliance, LLC an executive consulting business specializing in the intersection of Leadership, Diversity, Equity and Inclusiveness. His unique approach combines the science of behavioral economics with the methodology of helping teens and parents communicate. He is an advocate for addressing the Social Determinants of Health Disparities and has published in several academic journals. As an executive member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Communication and Media he emphasizes communication and works to help others communicate more effectively. A Leadership Austin Essentials graduate and board member of the Austin Black Physician Association he is committed to improving the equity in Austin and beyond.

Sam has worked in the nonprofit sector for over 32 years. He is currently the Vice President of Student and Community Services for Para Los Niños and leads a team of seven directors and 100+ employees who work toward transforming communities, strengthening children and families, and supporting youth transitioning toward higher education and the workforce.

Prior to joining Para Los Ninos, he was the Director of the Magnolia Community Initiative (MCI). MCI is a voluntary social innovations network of 70+ organizations in partnership with community residents to improve child and family well-being in MCI 500-block catchment area.

As a result, attending to a broad range of neighborhood and family conditions, and equipping parents to understand and respond to their child’s health and developmental needs, are a hallmark of the initiative.

He has been fortunate to have worked with a number of partnerships in support of children and families in Los Angeles, including the USC Sol Price Center for Social Innovation Steering Committee, 911������ Academy of Medicine Culture of Health Initiative, All Children Thrive Equity Advisory Group, and Casey Family Programs, Thriving Families Safer Children (TFSC). He also serves on the board of the Center for Nonprofit Management (CNM).

Otho E. Kerr III, JD, is the Director of Strategic Partnerships & Impact Investing of the Community and Outreach Unit of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Otho is charged with catalyzing capital providers to invest in creating more opportunities for those facing poverty and/or structural disparities related to race or ethnicity, and for inspiring capital providers to act by engaging them on key insights and providing compelling investment opportunities related to the Unit’s work. The Unit has identified three areas of focus for its work: 1) economic drivers of health and wellbeing; 2) mitigation of climate-related risk in low- and moderate-income communities; and 3) household financial stability and economic resiliency.

Prior to joining the Bank, Otho was the Chief Investment Officer for Acumen, an impact investment firm that invests in early-stage companies whose products and services enable the poor to transform their lives. As the Chief Investment Officer at Acumen, Otho oversaw Acumen’s global investment process, the measurement of the impact of its work and the development of insights and learnings. Prior to Acumen, Otho was a founding partner with Encourage Capital.�� Encourage is a research-driven, solutions-oriented impact investment firm that seeks to leverage private capital to solve critical environmental and social problems. ��Encourage has worked with strategic and financial investors, impact investors, non-profits and development finance institutions across its verticals, including carbon offset projects, sustainable seafood, stormwater mitigation, and financial inclusion. Otho was Chief Operating Officer of Encourage and led an effort to work with Alaskan native communities to develop carbon offset projects.

Otho has worked in investment banking and asset management for over thirty years, having begun with Goldman Sachs & Co. ��He began his professional career as an attorney with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, a leading global law firm. Otho received a BA from Dartmouth College in 1979, where he received the Barrett Cup, which is given to the outstanding senior, and a JD from The Harvard Law School in 1982, from which he graduated with honors. Otho was the first member of his class to receive the Dartmouth Alumni Award, given annually to a Dartmouth graduate who has “demonstrated extraordinary service to Dartmouth and civic organizations in addition to career accomplishment.”

Throughout his career, Otho has sought to merge his professional career with his interest in social justice. Otho was a co-founder of the Institute for Youth Entrepreneurship in Harlem and a fellow in the Rockefeller Foundation’s Next Generation Leadership Program. He was the first African-American President of the Dartmouth Alumni Council.�� He has served on numerous non-profit boards, including the Dartmouth Tucker Foundation (served as chair), Trinity Church Solebury, PA (served as senior warden), Freedom to Marry, Empire State Pride Agenda, Hetrick-Martin Institute and Volunteers of America New York. ��He is currently an Ambassador for Health Equity, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and serves on the 911������ Academy of Medicine’s Culture of Health Advisory Committee, for which he has participated in the writing of articles on a culture of health. Otho is also an active participant in and contributor to Denmark’s Creative Business Network and its Creative Business Cup competition.

Paul Lindberg, JD, is a Collective Impact Health Specialist, working in the Columbia River Gorge Region of Oregon/Washington. Through this unique community-based role, funded by Providence Hood River Hospital community benefit funds, Mr. Lindberg utilizes 28+ years of community-based experience to work across sectors identifying needs, designing initiatives to address those needs, and securing funding to support those initiatives. To date, this work has launched 90+ new collaborative initiatives and secured $26.5 million in grant funding to address a variety of social determinants of health. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation specifically recognized the Collective Impact Health Specialist role when it awarded the community its Culture of Health Prize in 2016.����

Mr. Lindberg is a co-founder of the Gorge Health Equity Collaborative, he served as Lead Research Scholar for TEDMED, for four years prior to Covid, vetting speakers for the TEDMED program. He also sat on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Culture of Health Prize 911������ Advisory Group from 2018 – 2022 as one of 12 members and the only one representing rural and prior winners, and has served in other advisory roles for the Foundation.��

Alan “Darrin” McCormick devoted 27 years working for a local community bank in Williamson, Mingo County, West Virginia, “wearing many hats” including Loan Officer, Compliance Officer, Secretary of the Board of Directors and Community Reinvestment Officer. ��Some of his past community involvement includes serving as a coach, treasurer and member of the Board of Directors of the Williamson Little League, Williamson Buddy League Basketball and Williamson Midget League Football, as well as being an active member of various civic organizations, and serving as Mayor of Williamson from 2005 to 2014.�� McCormick attended Community Development Institute East and completed numerous public leadership training courses through the Local Government Leadership Academy at WVU during his nearly nine years as mayor.�� As Mayor, he led a project team from Williamson as an inaugural member of the West Virginia BluePrint Communities initiative, which later was followed with project specific community development training through the West Virginia Community Development Hub’s Communities of Achievement Program, during which emerged the collaborative vision for Sustainable Williamson, a grass roots initiative to create a healthier and wealthier Mingo County.�� In 2014 Williamson was designated a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Prize winner.�� A founding member of Williamson Health & Wellness Center’s Board of Trustees, McCormick’s current position as Community Liaison for its Board and Executive Assistant to its CEO, affords him the opportunity to work enduringly as a champion of positive change by cultivating innovative solutions and promoting new ideas through the mentoring of emerging leadership.

Velma McBride Murry, PhD, is a nationally recognized expert examining ways in which racism affects family processes, behavior, and health outcomes of families. She is a Chancellor Appointed, University Professor with appointments in the Department of Health Policy (Vanderbilt School of Medicine) and Community Psychology (Peabody College) at Vanderbilt University. She serves on several national boards, including Foundation of Child Development, 911������ Academy of Medicine, Culture of Health Advisory Committee, and Blueprints Advisory Board, and a former Board Member of 911������ Academic of Medicine’s Board of Children, Youth and Families.

Dr. McBride Murry’s research focuses on examining the significance of context to everyday life experiences of African American families and youth; specific consideration is given to the implications of racism and other social structural stressors that marginalize families, for cascading influences on parenting and family functioning,�� mental and physical health, quality of life, and developmental outcomes and adjustment among youth. She has translated research from longitudinal research studies to inform the design, development and implementation of two RCTs to test their efficacy in youth risk behavior engagement. The Strong African American Families (SAAF) and the Pathways for African Americans Success (PAAS), not only prevented high risk behaviors but also demonstrated spillover effects on the enhancement of several educational-related outcomes among youth as they transition from middle childhood through high school. The next step is to disseminate these programs in real-world settings,�� community-based organizations, schools, primary health care, and churches.�� She is President of Society for Research on Adolescence and serves as board of director and governing councils, including 911������ Academy of Medicine, and hold positions on numerous editorial boards. Murry is one of the 100 newly elected members to the 2020 Class of the 911������ Academy of Medicine.

Julie Morita, MD, is Executive Vice President of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), where she oversees programming, policy, research and communications activities. As the nation’s largest private philanthropy dedicated solely to improving the nation’s health, RWJF is focused on advancing health equity where everyone in America has a fair and just opportunity to live the healthiest life possible. Recently, Dr. Morita has served on several federal, state and local COVID19 advisory committees including the Biden Transition COVID19 Advisory Board. Previously, she helped lead the Chicago Department of Public Health for nearly two decades, first as the Immunization Program medical director, then as chief medical officer. In 2015, she was appointed commissioner, where she oversaw the public health needs of 2.7 million residents in the nation’s third largest city. Dr. Morita began her medical career as a pediatrician in Tucson, Ariz., before moving into public health as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta (CDC).

Katherine Pipoly is Director of Social Accountability and Impact for the Kronkosky Charitable Foundation, serving Bexar, Comal, Kendall and Bandera counties. Her role is focused on the advancement of the foundation’s mission by evaluating and measuring the impact of its investments, supporting and fostering partnerships within the nonprofit and philanthropic community and understanding the collective impact of local strategies towards achieving a common goal.

She has more than 20 years of experience building local partnerships, streamlining services, and identifying cross-cutting and sustainable approaches to addressing local community issues. In 2016, Katherine moved to San Antonio to join the United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County team supporting UWSA’s early childhood investments and served as a facilitator for local collaboratives to align and maximize opportunities for stronger community impact. Katherine was born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley, where she obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Rehabilitative Services and Master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Texas RGV. She graduated from Leadership San Antonio, class 45. Katherine lives in San Antonio, TX with her husband Nathan, their son Noah and their four dogs, Maddy, Charlie, Cash and Kona.

Dwayne Proctor, PhD, is the current president and CEO of Missouri Foundation for Health. During his nearly 20 years in philanthropy, Dr. Proctor has always worked to ensure that American communities were healthy and thriving. Before becoming president and CEO of Missouri Foundation for Health in 2021, he served in a variety of roles at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In 2002, he joined as a senior communications and program officer, providing strategic guidance and resources for several child health and risk-prevention initiatives such as Nurse-Family Partnership, Free to Grow, Leadership to Keep Children Alcohol-Free, Partnership for a Drug-Free America, and the 911������ Campaign to Prevent Teenage Pregnancy.

In 2005, Dr. Proctor was tapped to lead RWJF’s national strategies to reverse the rise in childhood obesity rates. In this role, he worked with his colleagues to promote effective changes to public policies and industry practices, test and demonstrate innovative community and school-based environmental changes, and leverage sustainable changes using both “grassroots” and “treetops” advocacy approaches to educate local and national leaders on their roles and opportunities to prevent childhood obesity.

Prior to RWJF, Dr. Proctor was an assistant professor at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine where he taught courses on health communication and marketing practices to reach multicultural populations. During his Fulbright Fellowship in Senegal, West Africa, his research team investigated how HIV/AIDS prevention messages raised awareness of AIDS as a national health problem. Dr. Proctor received his doctoral, master’s, and bachelor’s degrees in marketing and communication science from the University of Connecticut. He is the former chairman of the board of directors for the Association of Black Foundation Executives and currently is the chairman of the board of trustees for the 911������ Association for the Advancement of Colored People Foundation.

Anna Ricklin, MHS, AICP, is a passionate advocate for healthy communities. She currently serves at the first Health in All Policies Manager for the Fairfax County, VA Health Department, where she acts as a health ambassador across county agencies. In this role, Anna promotes the integration of public health objectives into county plans, policies, and building projects. She also co-leads the Department’s Health Equity Team, charged with centering health equity through the transformation of internal processes and external operations for the benefit of staff, clients, and the community at large. Formerly, Anna led the American Planning Association’s Planning and Community Health Center, where she oversaw applied research and place-based initiatives to advance healthy planning practice. She has a background in health impact assessment, active transportation planning, and cross-sector collaboration, as well as recent work establishing metrics for healthy planning. Anna studied anthropology as an undergraduate and holds a Master of Health Sciences from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She lives in Falls Church, VA.

Anna Ricklin, MHS, AICP, is a passionate advocate for healthy communities. She currently serves at the first Health in All Policies Manager for the Fairfax County, VA Health Department, where she acts as a health ambassador across county agencies. In this role, Anna promotes the integration of public health objectives into county plans, policies, and building projects. She also co-leads the Department’s Health Equity Team, charged with centering health equity through the transformation of internal processes and external operations for the benefit of staff, clients, and the community at large. Formerly, Anna led the American Planning Association’s Planning and Community Health Center, where she oversaw applied research and place-based initiatives to advance healthy planning practice. She has a background in health impact assessment, active transportation planning, and cross-sector collaboration, as well as recent work establishing metrics for healthy planning. Anna studied anthropology as an undergraduate and holds a Master of Health Sciences from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She lives in Falls Church, VA.

Martín-José Sepúlveda, MD, ScD, is an IBM Fellow, 911������ Academy of Medicine member, Distinguished University Professor, Senior Scholar for Population Health and Innovation in the Office of Research and Economic Development, the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine and the Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work, Florida International University. He is also CEO of CLARALUZ LLC consulting, which provides support to institutions and enterprises on health and well-being strategies, design, implementation, data evaluation and research, and works with health technology startup companies providing them market, network, technology, data/analytics, and operations support. He is the chair of the Executive Council for SARS-COV2 related response, recovery, and resilience strategic sciences for the President of the 911������. Sepúlveda is the former Vice President of Health Systems and Policy Research, and VP Integrated Health Services at the IBM Corporation, leading health policy and strategy, health benefits innovation and purchasing, occupational health and well-being services for IBM globally. He has collaborated in research related to population health, workforce productivity, AI decision support, health care delivery and health systems improvement. He is board certified in internal medicine, occupational medicine, and preventive medicine, and serves on boards of advisors such as: the Harvard Chan School of Public Health’s Center for Work, Health and Wellbeing, the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, the University of Iowa College of Public Health, and the Council for Health Research for Economic Development.

Trained Facilitator who brings expertise in planning and improving treatment strategies based on specific patient needs. Leads effective individual and group counseling sessions with evidence-based techniques. Target approaches on unique patient needs and backgrounds. Trainer for WV Leadership Academy, Certified Trainer for CCAR (Connecticut Community for Addiction and Recovery), WV State Certified Peer Support Specialist. Focused Addiction and Recovery Trainer promotes superior skills in curriculum development and academic program management. Assesses participants’ needs and program effectiveness to suggest actionable improvements to meet participants learning objectives. An ambitious trainer who strives to cultivate inclusive learning environments rooted in participants’ progress and well-being. CEO & Founder of Great Triumphs My greatest passion is to effectively assist in creating equal opportunities for those struggling with stigma and biases, by providing education to obtain not only health equity but knowledge and help reach racial equity for all. Co-Facilitator RELAC (Racial Equity Learning & Action Community) To develop the empathy, capacity, healing, and action needed to advance racial equity. Recovery Coach Williamson Health and Wellness Center | Williamson, WV.

Tipiziwin Tolman��is Wičhíyena Dakota and Húŋkpapȟa Lakȟóta from the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation in North Dakota. She is a representative of the Skunk, Pretends Eagle, and Yellow Lodge extended families of the Standing Rock people and the Young extended family from the Spirit Lake Dakota people. Tipiziwin is currently a graduate student in the Master’s of Indigenous Language Revitalization at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Tipiziwin is a graduate of Washington State University’s Ti’tooqan Cuukweneewit Indigenous Teacher Preparation Project, an intensive indigenous pedagogy and indigenous world view aligned, culturally responsive elementary education program. She is currently a substitute teacher in the Pullman School District in Pullman, Washington. Tipiziwin is a former Lakota Language Activities Instructor in the Lakota Language Immersion Nest from 2012 to 2017. She has served as a member and co-chair of Standing Rock’s Education Consortium’s Lakota Language and Culture Committee and taught at the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s annual Dakotiyapi Lakotiyapi Summer Institute.

Tipiziwin is a graduate of Sitting Bull College, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in Native American studies. She also completed the College’s intensive Lakota Language teacher preparation program involving the intense study of the Lakota language, second-language teaching methodologies and language acquisition theory. Tipiziwin completed the Bush Foundation’s Native Nation Rebuilders governance program. She is married to T Tolman, also a former Lakota language immersion instructor at Wičhákini Owáyawa on Standing Rock, and they have six children: MathoSkawin, Itazipalutaslutela, Ptehewoptuha, Wigiiyaothi, Wanblikunzawin, and Wanapheya and one grandchild, Rylen. They make their home in Pullman, Washington, and own “Haipazaza Phezuta”, Which means Medicine Soaps in the Lakota language, an online soap and body product store that promotes family, sustainability, and respectful indigenous reciprocity relationships with medicine plant relatives. Tipiziwin is dedicated to bringing tribal language and culture to the forefront of conversations regarding public health disparities and social health determinants for indigenous communities and families. Within her scope as an Indigenous educator, Tribal Language Revitalization & Lakota Language Advocate and former immersion instructor, she bears witness to the reality that Tribal Language & Education rooted in Indigenous Pedagogy, are the key and leading social determinants of health for tribal members and tribal communities across the United States.

Donald Warne, MD, MPH, serves as the Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; Chair of the Department of Indigenous Health; Director of the Indians Into Medicine (INMED) and Public Health Programs; and Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of North Dakota. Dr. Warne is the Principal Investigator for the Indigenous Trauma & Resilience Research Center at UND, and he also serves as the Senior Policy Advisor to the Great Plains Tribal Leader’s Health Board in Rapid City, SD. Dr. Warne is a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe from Pine Ridge, SD and comes from a long line of traditional healers and medicine men. Donald Warne received his MD from Stanford University School of Medicine in 1995 and his MPH from Harvard School of Public Health in 2002. His work experience includes: several years as a primary care physician with the Gila River Health Care Corporation in Arizona; Staff Clinician with the 911������ Institutes of Health; Indian Legal Program Faculty with the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University; Health Policy Research Director for Inter Tribal Council of Arizona; Executive Director of the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board; and Chair of the Department of Public Health at North Dakota State University. Dr. Warne is also a member of the Stanford University Alumni Hall of Fame. Some of his other professional activities include: Member, Health Equity Advisory Committee, Health Affairs; Member, Culture of Health Advisory Committee, 911������ Academy of Medicine; Member, Framing the Future 2030 Initiative, Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health; Member, Group of Diversity and Inclusion, Association of American Medical Colleges; Member, EC 50 People Changing the World, Explorers Club; Member, Health Disparities Subcommittee of the Advisory Committee to the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); Member, International Advisory Committee, Australian Journal of Rural Health; Member, Indigenous Health Research Fund Expert Advisory Panel, Medical Research Future Fund, Australia; and Member, Diabetes in Indigenous Populations Special Interest Group, International Diabetes Federation.

Steven H. Woolf, MD, MPH, is Director Emeritus of the Center on Society and Health at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he is Professor of Family Medicine and Population Health. He holds the C. Kenneth and Dianne Wright Distinguished Chair in Population Health and Health Equity. Dr. Woolf has edited three books and published more than 200 articles in a career that has focused on raising public awareness about the social, economic, and environmental conditions that shape health and produce inequities. Beyond research, he works to address these issues through outreach to policymakers and the public, including testimony before Congress, consulting, editorials in major newspapers and social media, and speaking engagements. Dr. Woolf chaired the 911������ Research Council/Institute of Medicine panel that produced Shorter Lives, Poorer Health, which compared the health of Americans with peers in 16 other high-income countries. In recent years his team has examined the rise in midlife mortality rates in the United States, including studies conducted at the national, state, and county levels. Dr. Woolf received his M.D. in 1984 from Emory University and underwent residency training in family medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University. Dr. Woolf is also a clinical epidemiologist and underwent training in preventive medicine and public health at Johns Hopkins University, where he received his M.P.H. in 1987. He is board certified in family medicine and in preventive medicine and public health. He began his career as a health services researcher, with a focus on evidence-based guidelines. He served on the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2001.