December 2022
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Chet P. Hewitt, Sierra Health Foundation President and CEO and The Center CEO As we near 2023, I’m excited about our emerging economic development work in under-resourced communities. Alongside our partners, we will help historically marginalized populations build capacity, gain knowledge and mobilize to direct the infrastructure and climate-resilient projects their communities need. Development must be done with – not to – communities for an inclusive and equitable economy. We will get there by increasing opportunities for local organizations to decide how public funds are spent and by diversifying who receives those funds. |
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Kaying Hang, President of The Center and Sierra Health Foundation Senior Vice President of Programs and Partnerships Ensuring that every person in California can live a heathy life is our organization’s North Star. As we look to 2023, I’m excited about our continued investment in people, technology and processes that will help us deepen our impact and reaffirm our commitment to an unapologetic focus on health and racial equity. |
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Beatrix Koev, Chief Financial Officer Healthcare is a basic human right, not a privilege. I’m excited for 2023 so that our work can help society pause and ask the question, “should we really profit off of the suffering of others?” Every small improvement has ripple effects, the positive measurable impact we can help co-create. |
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Matt Cervantes, Managing Director of Healthy Youth Development I’m excited to witness, cheerlead and support young people leading the movement for a more racially just California. |
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Richard Dana, Managing Director of Economic Development The time has come for business, institutions and community leaders to make collective decisions, and I look forward to seeing this as the first steps toward true inclusion in economic decision making. |
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Ruth Jensen, Managing Director of Human Resources I’m looking forward to supporting a team making a difference in our communities. |
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Kendra Lewis, Managing Director of CEMI I am most excited about the many collaborations that are being built with big, bold thinking and execution. I think 2023 is going to be just the tip of the iceberg for health, equity and racial justice and we are going to see collaborations like we have never seen before make change in real time. |
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Maurice Samuels, Managing Director of Evaluation and Learning Over the next year, I’m looking forward to building on what we know about addressing health, equity and racial justice while coming up with creative and new ways of using our financial, intellectual and human resources to improve the lives of individuals and communities that have been historically underinvested in. |
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Reyna Villalobos, Managing Director of Regional Programs I’m most excited for the diverse community collaborations, and policy and systems change intersectionality work that Sierra Health Foundation and The Center will embark upon and that address the social determinants of health, to ensure that every low-income Californian has increased opportunity for improved health and well-being outcomes, access to affordable healthcare and health coverage, education, economic well-being, stable housing, safe working conditions, drinkable water and livable wages. |
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Aketa Marie Williams, Managing Director of Communications Stories can change the world. They expand our collective imagination of what change is possible and necessary. I’m excited to tell more of our partners’ stories about how they are boldly improving well-being across California and redefining who is worthy of wellness. |
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