National director of the Center for Health Equity; responsible for execution on strategic priorities aligned with the Center’s mandate to drive equitable health outcomes and transform healthcare systems through a comprehensive socioeconomic approach valuing the whole person.Leveraging thought leadership and health equity and public health expertise to innovate solutions across a portfolio of high-impact work in four key areas: 1) equitable quality healthcare and health outcomes, 2) equitable food systems, 3) inclusive healthcare infrastructure and system, 4) healthy people, healthy communities, and health in all policies.Leading and overseeing on-the-ground execution of program efforts nationwide and shepherding day-to-day operations, monitor team performance, and report on metrics; ensure efficient and cost-effective performance in accordance with operating budgets, year-end goals, and objectives.

The Esther Group LLC is a public health consulting and health equity strategy firm building human-centered solutions so people, communities, and organizations can be whole, well, and thrive.

Board Member of the Essex County Correctional Facility Civilian Task Force which is the first of its kind in the nation that was not mandated by court order. This nine-member independent Task Force will have oversight of the Essex County Correctional Facility to ensure a safe and secure environment for inmates, detainees, Corrections Officers and staff.

Senior leadership of a faith-based organization, which provides pastoral services, faith education, community and civic engagement, and missionary work abroad. Activities also include spoken word and gospel music performance and production.

Advise founding CEO and team for Coral Health, a health equity firm launched under the innovation incubator, Redesign Health, which is a first to market platform whose mission is to integrate with employers’ existing ecosystems and Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) to improve cultural fluency, health equity and long-term outcomes using culturally specific health education, activation, resources, and care navigation plans. Responsible for learning module development and facilitation, public promotion of the product, and strategic advising on digital content, user experience, business intelligence and forecasting on digital health, health equity and preventive medicine landscapes.

Served as inaugural senior executive leader in this role responsible for multiple business units including human experience (patient, family, community, and employee experience strategies), strategic planning, community affairs, community and population health, and the newly created department responsible for diversity, equity, and inclusion and antiracism initiatives.Provided stabilizing leadership and crisis management during the unprecedented COVID pandemic utilizing trauma-informed best practices and organizational development theory. Performed oversight of a multi-faceted peer support program and championed a culture of organizational and staff resiliency.Designed a robust equity and inclusion (E&I) strategy involving workforce, patients, and community at critical juncture in organization and nation’s history (i.e., conceptualized the hospital’s theory of change tool—identifying 5 E&I organizational priorities mapped onto a 10-point plan, over 40 key objectives and 100 plus metrics and fast goals). Positioned the hospital as an anchor institution leading in the health and racial equity and health justice spaces.Senior executive with foremost expertise in public health, preventive medicine and population health—provided strategic oversight of the community and population health department at the c-suite level and spearheaded strategic priorities around a social determinants of health framework (i.e., serving as the hospital lead on the newly announced housing partnership with the NJHMFA and L&M Developers); mobilized a prevention army model with the goal of co-locating clinical preventive services in a hyperlocal, community-integrated care approach; and operationalized an asset-focused and community participatory model of community empowerment (i.e., helping to launch and cultivate the Community Advisory Council as a subcommittee of the Community Oversight Board).

Provide strategic visioning and management of the 1199SEIU/League's newly formed Workplace and Community Health Program. Serve as member of the leadership team of the Labor Management Project; responsible for state-of-the-art, robust health and wellness programming at partner medical institutions in the League of Voluntary Hospitals. Facilitate collaborative work across the Greater New York City area to ensure the health and wellbeing of the 1199SEIU workforce. Support and innovate dynamic worksite wellness projects with a population health perspective. Leverage prevention science, health promotion and care coordination to affect broader community health goals.

Instruct courses in College of Global Public Health (CGPH) in Public Health Policy and Management concentration, which is designed to develop leaders who will influence policy and manage organizations to improve and protect public’s health; preparing next generation of public health pioneers with ciritical thinking skills, acumen and entrepreneurial approaches necessary to reinvent public health paradigm.©Mentor graduate students in the field of public health practice to understand changing public health and healthcare landscape and to leverage population health skills to impact health equity, community wellbeing and social justice.Courses instructed include: Introduction to Public Health Systems: Management and Policy Issues; Health Policy and Management - Part I: The Organization, Financing and Delivery of Health Care and Public Health in the US (live and online versions)

Provide health and wellness strategy and consultancy services in the areas of disease prevention, health promotion, capacity-building and life enrichment. Also, included are public health speaking services and social commentary on pressing community and national issues.

Community-based wellness program, which promotes health literacy and healthful lifestyles in the prevention of chronic disease and promotion of life balance. Offered as 12-session seminar, in addition to satellite projects with local organizations and firms. Online forum that engages participants on topics of import involving public health and lifestyle medicine.

Involved with rotation-based projects, which focused on public health and preventive medicine disciplines across academic, government (federal, state and municipal) and non-profit settings. Responsibilities included policy reviews, stakeholder assessments, program implementation and evaluation, public health messaging, systematic literature reviews, manuscript writing, and data analysis. Project sites included: -- Community Health Initiative (CHI), Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute -- Baltimore City Health Department, Office of Policy and Planning -- The Johns Hopkins Weight Management Center -- American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM), ImPRIME Center -- Essex County Hospital Center -- Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP), Divisions of Prevention Science and Health Communication, Health Literacy and e-Health -- Public Citizen, Health Research Group -- New Jersey Department of Health, Division of Family Health Services, Chronic Disease Prevention & Control Services Unit

Selected as online panelist for Health Care Rx, an online blog, which provided weekly commentary in the run-up to the health-care reform law, and offered health policy prescriptions and recommendations.