Professional + Academic Background

I am currently a Senior Program Manager with the Institute for Human Caring at Providence. My portfolio is focused on Age Friendly Care at Providence, as well as developing tools featured in the electronic medical record that support Advanced Care Planning.

My undergraduate degree is in cultural anthropology and Spanish from the University of Oregon. I served as a research fellow at the Oregon Social Learning Center and Center for Research to Practice. Areas of research included the impacts of perceived discrimination on the physical body among Latino Farmworkers, impacts of language brokering on social behaviors of Latino youth, and decision-making habits of youth in foster care.   

I earned Master of Public Health from Portland State University, with an emphasis on health behaviors and social determinants of health. I served as a graduate research assistant and graduate teaching assistant. I completed a year course on global aging, which culminated in a course field study on aging in Nicaragua.

Prior to joining Providence, I worked for Metropolitan Family Service for 4 years. I supported multiple grants and programs focusing on parenting skills, economic empowerment, access to community healthcare, and family support for post-incarcerated young males.

In 2019 I joined Providence with the system Cancer Institute, implementing a decision support application that aids in presenting best practice chemotherapy regimens to practitioners. I joined the Institute for Human Caring in 2021. My work with John’s Hopkins and Beth Israel Deaconess on sharing access to medical records with care partners was recently published in JAMA.