Lorelei Walker, Phd Mph Email & Phone Number

Everett, WA, US

Alexandria, Virginia, US

Wrote and secured $560,000 IN FSSA 1-year grant plus $88,000 in matching in-kind donations. Created and managing initiative cradle to grave and responsible for all grant administration.

Alexandria, Virginia, US

Serving as a resource to United Way of Kokomo, IN in their work to increase community resilience.

• Founded a Fellowship Program for public health professionals focused on interdisciplinary communication skills and thought leadership.
• Graduated 18 Fellows with Baylor University, UW, CUNY, Bellevue College, and within the Air Force.
• Secured and distribute 15,000+ double-layer barrier masks to three unions, homeless shelters, and businesses in WA and FL.
• Develop a social public health model structured on a socio-ecologic model, as well as allostatic, life course, social epigenetics, and stress system syndrome theories.
• Wrote a “Safe Disinfecting for Health” guidebook (English and Arabic) and taught 50+ free community classes.
• Created a “COVID safe guidebook in English and Spanish.

Tumwater, Washington, US

• Served as CDC ATSDR APPLETREE grant subject matter expert to educate, train, and support 4,200 WA state-licensed childcare centers to use health-positive and safe cleaning, sanitizing, and disinfecting practices.
• Created two training videos on cleaning and disinfecting practices for childcare providers and DOH, delivered in English and Somali.
• Partnered with nonprofits and conducted 40 listening sessions to understand barriers to safe cleaning and public health education.
• Petitioned WA DES to open janitorial contract allowing excluded childcare sites access to bulk supply rates and delivery of healthier cleaning products to close inequity gap.
• Conducted presentations to Spanish and Somali-speaking operators and Tribal partners to relay content to their communities.
• Partnered with National Pesticide Information Center to create an infographic that teaches bleach safety.

Seattle, WA, US

• Served as exclusive union representative for 1,000+ King County government workers focusing on public health and local services departments.
• Bargained 1st hazard pay for 100 workers at COVID quarantine centers, resulting in 5% in additional wages for admin staff and a 25% increase for medical assistants.
• Elected as co-chair of KC Coalition of Unions (20 Unions and 60 contracts).
• Chaired 2019 Labor Summit with KC Council, Executive, and Labor leaders resulting in two ordinances and amending King County Labor Policy to increase worker safety, reduce cost of litigation and arbitration, and create.
• Presented on panel for Washington State Woman's Commission on Labor and #metoo movement.
• Organized bargaining unit for 90 program managers gaining workers’ rights and job protection.

San Francisco, US

• Synthesized literature on environmental toxicants and health outcomes into resources for a general audience.
• Facilitated monthly teleconference presentations by research experts to 5,000 partners.
• Collected and analyzed data on partner engagement, including demographics and number of presentation downloads.

Seattle, WA, US

• Conducte literature reviews on stress response, adverse childhood experiences, life course theory, and genonmic privacy.
• Educate community leaders, high school students, and public health professionals on social oppression and childhood adversity.
• Co-created epigenetics educational video seen by 30,000 educators and researchers; managing grant funding and writing script.
• Advocated in Olympia on epigenetic implications of environmental toxicant exposures to vulnerable children.

Seattle, WA, US

• Developed a cross-functional 35-person workgroup integrating academic, research, and medical sciences with community leaders to address renal disease disparities in American Indian/Alaska Native populations.
• Compiled and analyzed 2,700 publicly available records related to NIH policy on secondary use of genetic data.
• Primary author on a publication in Science Translational Medicine.

London, GB

Tampa, Florida, US

Sanford, Florida, US

* Supported production of live performance events at 5 major venues in two countries including the 2000 Sydney Olympics and Carnegie Hall with 500-1500 performers per venue.* Supported the creation and tracking of $4M budget.

Master Of Public Health (Mph), Public Health Genetics

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Public Health Genetics

Certificate, Leadership

Public Health Genomics

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Biology