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Kevin Heckman
Director of product development, American Medical Association
Identifying and disseminating innovative approaches to U.S. medical schools, including new approaches to recruitment, admissions and retention to build a more representative physician workforce.
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Kiran Kaur Bains
President and chief executive officer, SA2020
Leading SA2020 as the organization drives progress toward a shared community vision in San Antonio.
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Krista Harrison
Associate professor in the Division of Geriatrics and the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco
Improving models of care and policies for older adults living with, dying from, and grieving dementia, prion disease, and other serious illnesses; currently holds a number of leadership roles in training and research.
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Krystal L. Culler
Founder and creative director, Virtual Brain Health Center
Developing innovative brain health and memory programs and services. Implementing population health approaches for individuals and carers, aimed at dementia risk prevention.
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Lauren Burke
Organizing Institute assistant director, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)
Focusing on training organizers to have the skills needed to win campaigns that build workers' power and improve wages and working conditions.
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Lauren Hunt
Assistant professor of nursing, Department of Physiological Nursing, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
Evaluating existing and developing new models of hospice and palliative care for older adults with dementia and their caregivers.
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Leanne Sajor
Senior program manager, Funders for a Just Economy Program, Neighborhood Funders Group
Working on issues at the intersections of labor rights and economic justice, decolonizing development policies, women’s rights, gender justice and feminist philanthropy.
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Lesford H. Duncan
Chief executive officer, Greening Youth Foundation
Introducing at-risk, underrepresented and system-involved youth to the transformative and healing power of the outdoors.
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Liam C. Hein
Associate professor, College of Nursing, University of South Carolina
Working toward social justice and health equity for LGBTQ individuals and the community through education, research and health policy.
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Lindsey Pollaczek
Vice president of programs, Fistula Foundation
Leading comprehensive programming and teams to improve capacity for obstetric fistula treatment and eradication, in collaboration with partners in more than 20 countries in Africa and Asia.
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Magda Kaczmarska
Dancer, researcher and creative aging teaching artist
Building creative communities with people living with dementia through the transformative power of dance. Researching and advocating for the value and role of the arts in brain health across the life course.
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Maria Portela Martinez
Chief of the family medicine section, George Washington University Medical Faculty Associates
Leading efforts to re-envision primary care training focused on transforming health care delivery systems aimed at improving access, quality of care and cost effectiveness for vulnerable populations.
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Marlon Peterson
President and chief executive officer, The Precendential Group; host of "DEcarcerated" podcast series; author
Improving services and leadership capacity of organizations working toward criminal justice reform. Writing books, including "Bird Uncaged: An Abolitionist's Freedom Song."
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Mary Hooks
National field secretary, Movement for Black Lives
Building the leadership capacity of the LGBTQ community in the American South through direct action efforts and dynamic campaigns.
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Medha D. Makhlouf
Associate professor of law and founding director of the Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic at Penn State Dickinson Law
Researching legal and policy issues at the intersection of U.S. health law and immigration law. Advocating for equitable access to health care. Preparing law students to work for health justice.
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Megan L. Srinivas
Infectious disease physician, clinical instructor and translational health policy research fellow, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina
Utilizing politics and policy to improve health care access in rural U.S., including COVID-19 policy. Researching social innovation for sexual and reproductive health in resource-limited settings globally.
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Melanie R. Brown
Deputy director, Global Policy and Advocacy, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Leading the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation engagement with influential constituencies across North America, focusing on public education, economic mobility and public policy. Speaking and writing on race, gender, inequality and philanthropy.
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Melissa Jones
Executive director, Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative
Driving public and private resources to the communities most impacted by racial and economic injustice, with a particular focus on Black communities; sometimes working for municipal government or as an external partner.
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Michael Smith
Chief executive officer, AmeriCorps
Leading AmeriCorps, the U.S. federal agency that deploys more than $1 billion and 250,000 AmeriCorps members annually to address the nation’s most pressing challenges, improve lives and communities, and strengthen civic engagement.
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Michelle Moses-Eisenstein
Public health analyst, Health Resources and Service Administration
Improving the lives of people with dementia and their caregivers through innovation across arts programs, grants, communications and policy.
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Mitchell Little
Executive director, Mayor's Office of Community Empowerment and Opportunity, City of Philadelphia
Spearheading initiatives to support low-income people and communities.
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Mollie Rose
Owner and teacher, Pilates in Common
Working to increase equity in the health care system by exposing a wider population to preventative movement practices.
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Monique E. Brown
Founder and principal consultant, Well Placed LLC
Creating healthy places and supporting equitable community development that ensure the health and well-being of all.
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Monique Miles
Vice president, Aspen Institute
Building diverse, equitable and inclusive systems and economies for out-of-work adults, with an emphasis on marginalized populations.
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Nasser Eledroos
Policy counsel, Color of Change
Exploring racially equitable approaches to the design, implementation and accountability of algorithms and information systems in U.S. law.
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Nicholas Grant
Group psychologist/lieutenant, U.S. Navy
Leading a national U.S.-based LGBTQ+ health nonprofit organization, and diversity, equity and inclusion efforts within the U.S. Navy health care system focused on improving access to gender affirming care for active-duty service members.
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Nicole Batsch
Gerontologist and global consultant
Understanding how people with dementia can lead more meaningful lives under human rights’ objectives.
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Nkemakolem Osian
Public health analyst, Health Resources and Services Administration (U.S.)
Leading efforts to strengthen care coordination strategies to improve access, delivery, and quality of treatment and care in rural communities.
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Nyle Fort
Minister, activist and scholar
Working with organizers, educators, creatives, faith leaders and local residents to build a global society rooted in the principles of love, freedom, and justice.
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Obenewa Amponsah
Executive coach and managing director, Black Leadership Institute, Institute for Nonprofit Practice
Supporting Black social impact leaders and their teams through the provision of executive coaching, transformative programming,
and training and developmental opportunities.
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Obiora Okoye
Clinical consultant, San Francisco Department of Public Health
Working to create a collaboration across sub-Saharan Africa to ensure the prioritization of brain health in public health.
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Paige Knowlson
Executive director, Pattison's Academy
Building collaborative, interdisciplinary teams, programs and communities to promote childhood health and development.
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Phaedra Bell
Director of school and community engagement, University of California, San Francisco, Dyslexia Center
Translating brain health science into mechanisms for cultivating justice and equity in health and education.
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Qusai Hammouri
Orthopaedist
Improving access to care for minorities and developing systems to build surgical programs.
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Rashad Robinson
President, Color of Change
Developing an infrastructure of a strategic Black response to the needs of, and injustices facing, the Black community; and campaigning for changes in employment, the economy, voting, criminal justice, news and entertainment.
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Rasheedah Phillips
Director of housing, PolicyLink
Addressing racial inequity in community redevelopment, preservation of affordable housing and disinvestment from neighborhoods.
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Raymond Orr
Associate professor and department chair, University of Oklahoma
Engaging in treatymaking debates in Australia, considering how testimonials about treaties and self-determination from Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in the U.S. and New Zealand would positively affect discussions in Australia.
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Reggie Shuford
Executive director, North Carolina Justice Center
Leading a progressive research and advocacy organization to eliminate poverty in North Carolina by ensuring that every household in the state has access to the resources, services and fair treatment it needs to achieve economic security.
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Regina Holloway
Vice president of Global Strategic Community Impact, Axon
Leading community engagement efforts to transform relationships between safety officials and the communities they are meant to serve.
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Richard Wallace
Founding executive director, Equity And Transformation (EAT)
Organizing civil rights activism and leading Equity and Transformation, a nonprofit organization that won the first recreational cannabis policy to include reparations for the war on drugs.
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Rowena Richie
Dance theater artist and movement educator
Promoting positive aging through movement-based, creative engagement with elders in various settings.
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Rukia Lumumba
Executive director, People's Advocacy Institute
Incubating initiatives that transform our response to violence; and challenging the need for prisons and centering community-led governance.
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Sagal Ali
Product manager, UnitedHealth Group
Identifying and advancing health equity initiatives across products and services at UnitedHealth Group.
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Sara Selig
Associate physician, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Supporting Indigenous communities and city, county and state COVID-19 responses with Partners In Health to implement equitable pandemic responses as well as stronger public health systems.
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Sarah Battistich
Associate professor of emergency medicine, Bellevue New York University Medical Center
Supporting survivors of torture and refugees, advocating and researching the medical and mental health effects of immigration, and looking for new collaborations and vistas.
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Sarah Chambers
Integrated medicine licensed clinical social worker (LCSW), Northwestern Medicine
Integrating health care for the co-management of disease through multidisciplinary education and the development of shared clinical pathways to target complex factors contributing to health disparities.
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Sarah M. Hooper
Executive director and lecturer in law, UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy, UC Hastings College of Law
Developing medical-legal collaborations in education, research and clinical service that advance equity in the care of older adults.
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Scott Howell
Associate professor and director of public health dentistry and teledentistry, A.T. Still University
Developing and implementing non-traditional health care delivery models to decrease and eliminate barriers to care.
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Scott Nass
Regional medical director, Aledade
Partnering through telehealth with individuals living medically and socially complex lives to help them navigate the challenges of their health and the health care system.
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Shannon Jordan
Program analyst, U.S. Veterans Health Administration, VHA Office of Health Equity
Improving workforce diversity, cultural competency and minority staff pipelines at the Veterans Health Administration.
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Stefanie Piña-Escudero
Doctoral researcher, Genetics of Aging and Neurodegenerative Dieases, Memory and Aging Center, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
Establishing best practice for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of dementia, supported by the development of an international, multidisciplinary network.
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Syed Mustafa H. Nadir
Co-founder and chief executive officer, Creative Frontiers
Leading a creative company focused on behavior change to reach underserved communities with effective health messaging that is entertaining, culturally relevant and informative.
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Tala Al-Rousan
Associate director, Center for Life Course and Vulnerable Population Research, University of California, San Diego; and assistant professor
Investigating how the stress of war and displacement affects dementia rates in refugees in the Middle East. Co-designed the Atlantic Fellows Thematic Forum in Jordan for learning about migration and health.
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Talila Lewis
Community lawyer and organizer
Developing a framework to situate ableism as central to every form of systemic oppression while leading efforts to dismantle all carceral institutions.
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Talita Rosa
Neurology resident, University of Louisville
Studying the economic and psychological burden of informal caregiving for dementia in Brazil.
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Tanisha Hill-Jarrett
Neuropsychologist and postdoctoral scholar, University of California
Examining the effects of racism and gendered racism on the cognitive functioning of Black older adults; examining how psychological coping strategies influence this stress-cognition relationship.
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Thenmozhi Soundararajan
Executive director, Equality Labs
Building the power of Black and Dalit movements to overcome white supremacy and caste apartheid.
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Thomas Merrill
Nursing student, Duke University
Integrating data and information from clinical, socioeconomic and environmental sources to advance evidence-based practices that optimize outcomes and address inequities.
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Toyese Oyeyemi
Executive director, Social Mission Alliance
Leading strategies and community to advance social mission across the training programs and institutions educating and deploying the U.S. health workforce.
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Tselmen Daria
Postdoctoral researcher, Gladstone Institute
Spreading awareness of dementia through clinical research. Promoting the idea of embracing aging, learning from previous generations through younger generations connecting with the them.
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Tshepiso Mokoena
Executive director, Tshepiso Mokoena Foundation
Leading a foundation that focuses on programs for gender, racial and social equity; advocating for the equality and empowerment of Deaf people in South Africa.
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V. Kai Kennedy
Vice chair of equity and associate professor, University of California, San Francisco
Challenging the status quo of health care, developing curricula for equity-focused health professions, and pursuing healthier societies.
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Veronica Rojas Carstensen
Mixed media instructor, Creative Growth Art Center
Using the arts to serve adults with developmental disabilities or older adults, many with dementia.
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Walter Dawson
Assistant professor, Oregon Health and Science University
Developing strategies to reduce the economic burden of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia through public policy interventions that better support individuals, family care partners, and the public programs that fund care.
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Wilneida Negron
Director of research and policy, Coworker; and co-founder of Startups & Society Initiative
Working on the frontlines of fostering new multi-issue and cross-disciplinary approaches and solutions to our increasingly complex, socio-technical world.
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Yue Leng
Assistant professor of psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco
Developing interventional studies targeting improved sleep and cognition, which have the potential to help prevent the onset and progression of dementia in high-risk populations.
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Yvonne Yiu
Health systems specialist, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Providing subject matter expertise to support clinical growth among Veteran Affairs hospitals in California, Arizona and New Mexico.
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Zachary Bandler
Filmmaking and screenwriting instructor, Anthony Meindl's Actor Workshop
Creating informed and empathetic narratives of dementia through film and television direction and screenwriting.
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Zakiya Carr Johnson
Principal, Odara Solutions
Leveraging over 20 years of public policy experience to create economic empowerment and investment opportunities for historically marginalized communities.
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Zakiyah Shaakir-Ansari
Advocacy director and New York city director, Alliance for Quality Education
Serving as the advocacy director of the New York State Alliance for Quality Education (AQE), the leading statewide organization fighting for educational justice in New York State.
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Zeina Saliba
Inpatient medical director, Psychiatric and Behavioral Health Services, George Washington University Hospital
Improving health care access and quality across multiple domains by overseeing consultation and inpatient psychiatric services. Working to decrease stigma in mental health, and caring for marginalized populations.
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Zulayka Santiago
Founder and creative director, Libélula Consulting
Providing inspiration, instigation and support for projects, organizations and foundations focused on equity, social justice and authentic community engagement.
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