Esmeralda Garza is the Sr. Administrative Services Analyst, COVID Infection Control for the Yolo County Public Health Department. Throughout the pandemic, she’s worked to make information and resources available to Spanish speaking residents, particularly our farmworkers. Garza works collaboratively with community partners to increase access to COVID19 testing and vaccines for our Latino population.

Elected to his position in 2018, Garth Lewis serves as the Yolo County Superintendent of Schools, supporting five school districts serving 30,000 students and other key agencies that serve children, youth and families throughout Yolo County. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the Yolo County Office of Education, under his leadership, has provided critical support to maintain the health and safety of students and school staff, including the distribution of emergency supplies, PPE and testing.

As senior vice president of community and population health, Debbie Salas-Lopez, MD, MPH, oversees Northwell Health’s community and public health strategy, including community health investment, community relations, strategic community partnerships, the Center for Equity of Care, as well as the smoking cessation, human trafficking and Food as Health programs. Dr. Salas-Lopez’s leadership was critical during the COVID-19 pandemic. She and her team have partnered with various community and faith-based leaders to identify their most-pressing needs, which became the catalyst for Northwell’s faith-based testing initiative — a program where Northwell partners with community and faith-based centers to offer free diagnostic and serology (antibody) testing. Dr. Salas-Lopez is also leading the Long Island Regional Health Equity Task Force. She also received the 2021 Tribute to Excellence in Health Care award from the United Hospital Fund.

Emily Mosites, PhD MPH, LCDR USPHS, is the Senior Advisor on Special Populations to the Deputy Director for Infectious Diseases at CDC. She focuses on infectious disease prevention among people experiencing homelessness or incarceration. LCDR Mosites received her MPH in Epidemiology of Microbial Disease from Yale University and her PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Washington.

Dr. Eduardo Sanchez serves as Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for Prevention for the American Heart Association (AHA). He is the Principal Investigator (PI) of the National Hypertension Control Initiative (NHCI), a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health (OMH) and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). He is the AHA clinical lead on Target:BP (a joint blood pressure control initiative with the American Medical Association) and KnowDiabetesbyHeartTM (a joint cardiovascular risk factor control initiative with the American Diabetes Association). He is one of the authors of the AHA Presidential Advisory on Structural Racism and its health effects. Prior to joining AHA, he served as Vice President and CMO for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas.

Jackie Qataliña Schaeffer, an Iñupiaq from Kotzebue, Alaska, is the Community Development Manager at the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium. For a decade she has worked across Alaska holistically infusing indigenous knowledge into a variety of sectors she has experience in, including comprehensive planning, energy, housing, water security, and sanitation and climate change adaptation for rural communities.

Lili Farhang, MPH, co-directs Human Impact Partners, a national non-profit that seeks to transform the field of public health to center equity and build collective power with social justice movements. For nearly 20 years, she has visioned, developed, and implemented policy and systems change to advance health equity in the government and nonprofit sectors.

Michael A. Goze is a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin. He is currently the CEO of the American Indian Community Development Corporation in Minneapolis MN. He has served as a Legislator for the Ho-Chunk Nation, a special assistant to David W Anderson Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs. He has been involved with the Twin Cities Urban Indian Community for over 30 years.

Dr. Melissa Marshall serves as the Chief Executive Officer for CommuniCare Health Centers in Davis, California, a federally-qualified health center organization which serves one in nine Yolo County residents. Prior to being named CEO, Dr. Marshall was the Chief Medical Officer for three years and also served as the Chief Medical Officer of Community Health Center Network (CHCN), which provides network and management services organization for Alameda County’s eight federally-qualified health centers. Dr. Marshall previously served as the Associate Medical Director for Family Care Health Centers, in St. Louis, Missouri. She received her undergraduate degree from Stanford University, her medical degree from Washington University in St. Louis, and completed her Family Medicine residency at University of California at Davis Medical Center.

Mike Webb has served as city manager for the City of Davis since December 2017. Prior to his appointment to city manager, Webb served as the City of Davis director of community development & sustainability from 2013-2016 and from 2014-2017 held the concurrent role of assistant city manager, overseeing the Public Works and Parks & Community Services departments. During his 24-year tenure with the City of Davis, he has worked in the key areas of economic development, land use planning, permitting, organizational and policy development and climate change/sustainability.

Ray Kerins is Chief Executive Officer of The Next Solutions Group, a corporate reputation, issues management, business intelligence and cybersecurity organization. Prior to NSG, Ray was Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs for Bayer Corporation. At Bayer, he managed all communications, government relations and policy for the company’s main businesses – Agricultural, Consumer, Pharmaceuticals and Animal Health. He was a member of the U.S. Country Leadership Team and the Bayer Global Leadership Council. Ray also oversaw the Bayer U.S. Foundation and was chairman of Bayer’s political action committee. Prior to Bayer, Ray was Vice President of external affairs & worldwide communications for Pfizer Inc. Prior to Pfizer, he was Executive Director of public affairs for Merck & Co.

Robynne Rose-Haymer, MA Ed. serves as the Deputy Chief Program Officer for the Sacramento LGBT Community Center. With over twenty years of workforce development, program development & implementation, and leadership experience, Robynne’s continuing passion is helping people obtain the education and skills they need to pursue their goals. Since she completed the Prosperity Now Platforms for Prosperity Fellowship in partnership with Bank of America, Robynne has become a champion for financial capability integration into workforce development programming.

Dr. Rochelle Walensky became the 19th director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the ninth Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry in January 2021 after serving on the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic as chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital from 2017–2020 and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School from 2012–2020. Dr. Walensky is an influential scholar whose pioneering research has helped advance the national and global response to HIV/AIDS, serving as the National Institutes of Health’s chair of the Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council from 2014 to 2015 and as a member of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Panel on Antiretroviral Guidelines for Adults and Adolescents since 2011. Dr. Walensky is also a well-respected expert on the value of testing and treatment of deadly viruses and has conducted research on vaccine delivery and strategies to reach underserved communities.

An internationally recognized leader in developing innovative strategies to end homelessness and strengthen communities, Rosanne Haggerty is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Community Solutions. Community Solutions assists communities throughout the US and internationally in solving the complex housing problems facing their most vulnerable residents. Their large-scale change initiatives include the 100,000 Homes and Built for Zero Campaigns to end chronic and veteran homelessness, and neighborhood partnerships that bring together local residents and institutions to change the conditions that produce homelessness.

Dame Sally Davies was appointed as the UK Government’s Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in 2019. She is also the 40th Master of Trinity College, Cambridge University. Dame Sally was the Chief Medical Officer for England and Senior Medical Advisor to the UK Government from 2011-2019. She is a leading figure in global health, having served as a member of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Executive Board 2014-2016, and as co-convener of the United Nations Inter-Agency Co-ordination Group (IACG) on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), reporting in 2019. In 2020, she became the second woman (and the first outside the Royal family) to be appointed Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) for services to public health and research.

Stephen Massey is a social entrepreneur and co-founder of Meteorite, an impact agency that builds coalitions for good. In this role, he serves as Director of the Health Action Alliance, a unique partnership between leading business, communications and public health organizations to strengthen business action on critical health issues, improve health equity and help rebuild public health. Prior to launching Meteorite, Stephen co-founded a non-profit health policy organization in Russia and Ukraine, helped mobilize more than 300 of the world’s leading media companies in response to AIDS, and managed a multi-million dollar investment portfolio on behalf of a major operating foundation and the United Nations.

Zoraida Rodríguez is an attorney and former diplomat with over 15 years of experience. She currently serves as Senior Public Policy Manager for Uber’s Federal Affairs team, based in Washington, D.C. Prior to this role, she was the Public Policy Manager for Central America and the Caribbean region, based in Panama.

Before joining Uber, Zoraida served as Deputy Permanent Representative for the Republic of Panama to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), and the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva, Switzerland.