PRACTICE GREENHEALTH - Key Persons
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- Northwest Regional Coordinator, Healthy Food in Health Care
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Aliza holds degrees in geography and environmental studies from UC Berkeley, where she conducted research on food in the United States prison system. An advocate for supporting marginalized communities, she has served in operations, organizing, grant writing, strategy, and partnership development roles with Environmental Grantmakers Association, Rewild Your Campus, Comunidades, and Farmers Conservation Alliance. She also completed two AmeriCorps service terms, working in youth development, sustainable tourism, and community development roles. A Los Angeles native, she currently resides in Hood River, Oregon.
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- Dietitian
- Healthy Food in Health Care Western U.S. Regional Program Manager
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Amber is a dietitian with a master's in food policy from the Tufts Friedman School. She has worked for over a decade in food and nutrition with diverse experience in policy, education, and clinical care. She works in the Southwest and Oregon to support the health care sector in purchasing more local, sustainable food and investing in upstream interventions to build a healthier food system. Amber is also a mom, runner, and fan of bad puns.
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- Associate Director of Grants and Development Systems
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Amy is an experienced administrative manager with a background in executive-level support, organization development, client and employee services, project management, process improvement, and developing and maintaining data and document systems. Amy previously served as office services manager for Bohemian Companies, executive assistant to the executive director of Bohemian Foundation, and search administrator/executive assistant for Heidrick & Struggles. She enjoys traveling with her Croatian spouse and views organizing closets, drawers, and cabinets as recreational activity.
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- National Lead, Southern California Regional Liaison, and Manager of Strategic Partnerships for Economic Impact Within Impact Spending at Kaiser Permanente
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- Growth & Partner Experience Manager
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Andrea comes to us with experience in fundraising, member services, governance, project management, and relationship management. She spent nearly 12 years at the Massachusetts Health and Hospital Association as the senior manager, governance and member relations, and is also an attorney.
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- Director of Climate Policy and Advocacy
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Antonia is well-versed in climate change work that focuses on protecting public health. Her previous climate work includes roles at Physicians for Social Responsibility and the National Resources Defense Council. She holds a doctoral degree in physics from the University of California, San Diego and a master's degree in applied physics from Columbia University. Antonia has lived in Washington, D.C. since 2002 with her husband and son.
April is awed by the power of storytelling to inspire action. Sharing hospital successes, quotes, and photos that capture the moment shows what is possible and amazing about our work. Thanks to her background in creative writing, journalism, and environmental communications, your stories are her beat. April gets her endless joie de vivre from her family, her pup, farm-to-table cooking, her cozy wood stove, bicycles, and sci-fi novels.
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- Healthy Food in Health Care New England Community Food System Regional Program Manager
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Betsy is committed to creating sustainable food systems to improve community health and build local economies. Her experience includes research, policy and advocacy, nonprofit management, and cooking in restaurants on both coasts. Betsy lives in Providence, Rhode Island, with her husband and children. Outside of work, she can be found running, cooking, and spending as much time outdoors as possible.
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- Senior Fellow at Institute for Healthcare Improvement
- Senior Fellow With the Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Blair L. Sadler is a senior fellow with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and a faculty member at the University of California, San Diego Schools of Medicine and Management. As president and CEO of Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego, Sadler received the Ernest A. Codman Award for work in developing clinical pathways. As a board member of the Center for Health Design, he has been heavily involved in developing the business case for building better hospitals through evidence-based design. He was a founder of the center's pebble program, which disseminates pioneering work on evidence-based design. He is a frequent speaker on the topics of building safe hospitals through evidence-based design and the hospital trustee's role in patient safety and quality. He is an active participant in the IHI Fellows Alumni Program, lead author of the IHI white paper on evidence-based environmental design, and co-author of the book "Transforming the Healthcare Experience Through the Arts."
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- IT Solutions Associate Director
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Brian brings more than 20 years of IT experience working with nonprofits. He is responsible for managing, integrating, and developing solutions for Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth. His journey has been marked by a profound passion for open-source technologies, which he believes hold the key to driving positive social change. He is the co-author of "GeoServer Beginner's Guide," the first book for the GeoServer community that takes a zero-to-hero approach to embracing GeoServer to visually analyze, interpret, edit, and share interactive web-based maps. Brian enjoys kayak fishing, reading about the bleeding edge of technology, and perfecting the art of brewing a great beer.
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- Grants and Development Systems, Grants Assistant
- Quality Assurance and Data Specialist
Cari is a quality assurance and data specialist with several years of experience in database management, data reporting, and analytics. Her experience includes coordination and data management for energy efficiency initiatives. Cari resides in Maryland with her husband and two boys and enjoys gardening and photography in her spare time.
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- Associate Director of Performance Analytics
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- Manager of Data and Partner Support
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Christopher has been working in health care sustainability since he graduated from college. His focus is measuring sustainability in the health care sector through data and building expertise in all content areas. He also owns a circular economy consulting firm and was named to GreenBiz's 30 Under 30 list for 2018.
David Mazumder is an M.D.-Ph.D. dual-degree candidate at Harvard Medical School and a leader in the student health professional movement for a sustainable future. He is a founding board member and treasurer of Future Doctors in Politics, Inc., a nonprofit educating and empowering medical students to advocate for their patients and communities and for systemic changes to address the social determinants of health. He served as a 2021 advocacy co-chair for Medical Students for a Sustainable Future (MS4SF), a national network of students working to prepare health professionals for careers shaped by climate change's impacts and activate their institutions to take climate action. At MS4SF, he organized an educational series to provide real-time, collective action in support of climate policy and represented the organization at conferences. He has pushed for climate action through volunteer work with Citizens Climate Lobby and trained as an En-ROADS ambassador with Climate Interactive.
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- International Climate Director
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Diana has over 20 years of experience working with international organizations in development and public health programming. She has lived and worked in South Sudan, Thailand, Myanmar, and Ethiopia, and has provided technical assistance to organizations working in Africa and Latin America. Diana's previous experience focused on monitoring, evaluation, learning, and management roles in climate resilience, food security, infectious diseases, and immunizations. She holds an M.A. in international development from George Washington University and recently completed an M.S. in health policy, planning, and financing from the London School of Economics and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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- Board Co - Chair )
- Internal Medicine Physician
Dr. Alice Chen is an internal medicine physician and national leader in physician advocacy and public health. She currently serves as senior advisor to Made to Save, a national grassroots public outreach campaign helping communities disproportionately affected by COVID-19 access information and vaccines. She previously served as executive director of Doctors for America, a national network of physicians and medical students who advocate for policies to improve patients' lives. Under her leadership, the organization played an important role in the passage of the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid expansion in multiple states and the push for federal funding for gun violence research. She has served as a Hauser Visiting Leader at the Harvard Kennedy School Center for Public Leadership and has spoken and written extensively on the topics of health care reform, physician advocacy, climate change, COVID-19 response, and social connection. She is also an adjunct assistant clinical professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
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Amy is an emergency medicine physician and passionate advocate for sustainable health care and planetary health. Inspired by her son, she led her hospital green team for many years and now supports and inspires physicians interested in promoting climate-smart health care. She believes strongly that physicians and the health care sector can lead the way toward a healthy, sustainable future. Amy enjoys travel, plant-based cooking, a good workout, and long walks in the woods with her dogs.
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- Entrepreneur in Residence at Emerson Collective, Co - Founder at Last Mile Health, Faculty at Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women 's Hospital
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- Vice President
- Vice - President and Patient Safety Officer at MCIC Vermont
Dr. Ronald Wyatt is vice president and patient safety officer at MCIC Vermont, a risk-retention group, where he leads multiple patient safety initiatives for several leading academic health systems. He is an internationally known equity, safety, and quality improvement/implementation expert. Wyatt was the first co-chair of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Equity Advisory Group and is faculty for the IHI Pursuing Equity Initiative. After serving as the medical director for the U.S. Defense Health Agency/Military Health System Patient Safety Analysis Center, he became the first medical director of The Joint Commission (TJC) Office of Quality and Patient Safety and the first patient safety officer for TJC. While at TJC, Wyatt led the team that wrote the patient safety systems chapter, contributed to sentinel event alerts, and created the quick safety publication. He served as technical advisor on the RCA2 document that has been widely adopted as a guide to completing a root cause analysis. Currently, he is faculty/advisor/coach on multiple health equity collaboratives including BCBS Massachusetts/IHI, ACGME BCBS Illinois Equity Matters, KC Learning Action Network, and the Providence equity collaboratives. He serves as an implementation specialist on the Veterans Health Administration high reliability collaborative. He has written and published many articles, blogs, and chapters on patient safety, health equity, and process improvement.
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- Chief Medical Officer for Global Employee Health at Google
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- Head of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging
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Callender is an organizational sociologist with more than 10 years of experience building networks and leaders. Her international and intercultural experience informs her current work focused on DEIB, cross-cultural communications, building high performance, and organizational development. Her experience includes leading the "Addressing Inequality" initiative at the United Nations, the largest and most successful consultation in UN history. Most recently, Callender served as the head of diversity, equity, and inclusion for Thinx, Inc. In her free time, she is dedicated to maintaining her tennis obsession.
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- Administrative Coordinator
- Executive
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Elizabeth comes to us from Articularis Healthcare Group, where she served as an executive assistant, and brings to her role exceptional business administration skills and a background in executive support and human resources. She is currently pursuing an MBA with a concentration in human resources management from Southern New Hampshire University. She is passionate about nature preservation, volunteer work, and her friends and family, and enjoys taking exercise classes and learning new recipes.
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- Director of Public Relations
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Emily (Emmie) has focused her career on providing vision while developing and executing strategy in nonprofit settings. She excels at building programs in dynamic and collaborative environments. Emmie previously oversaw COVID-19 response and recovery in the mid-Atlantic at the CDC Foundation. She also served as chief of staff at the American Flood Coalition, director of presidential affairs at the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and an international development fellow on a USAID-funded project in Uganda. Emmie is a Coloradan at heart and in her spare time enjoys hiking, swimming, skiing, and baking. She resides with her wife in Newport News, Virginia.
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- Healthy Food in Health Care National Director
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Emma is inspired by the power of food to connect us, nourish our bodies, and restore our natural systems. She is excited to lead a team of content experts and organizers at Health Care Without Harm to work with health care institutions and health professionals across the country to promote sustainable food systems. When she's not working, Emma spends her time creating an urban food forest in her backyard in Portland, Oregon.
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- Senior Director, Philanthropic Partnerships and Strategy
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Before joining Health Care Without Harm, Erin led global programs at Bohemian Foundation, managing a portfolio of international grants and other investments addressing global challenges in health, poverty, and the environment. In this role, Erin also served on the executive committee of Big Bang Philanthropy, an international funder affinity group driving money to organizations with scalable, impactful solutions to poverty. As a foreign service officer for the U.S. Agency for International Development, Erin advanced global U.S. government efforts to end extreme poverty and to promote resilient, democratic societies. And as a program officer at Heifer International, she supported efforts to promote community-based, just food systems. Her hobbies include hiking, gardening, reading, playing trivia, and walking her dog. She lives in Fort Collins, Colorado with her husband, Dan, and their two sons, Lucas and Franklin.
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- IT Solutions Database Manager
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- Program Administration Manager
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- President and Founder at Practice Greenhealth and Health Care Without Harm
Gary Cohen has been a pioneer in the environmental health movement for more than 35 years, helping to build global coalitions and networks to address health impacts related to climate change and toxic chemical exposure. Cohen is co-founder and president of Health Care Without Harm, created in 1996 to help transform the health care sector to be environmentally sustainable and support the health and climate resilience of communities. Since its inception, the nonprofit has grown to lead and partner on groundbreaking initiatives in more than 72 countries. Cohen was awarded the Champion of Change Award for Climate Change and Public Health by the White House in 2013. In 2015, Cohen received a MacArthur Fellowship and a "Genius Grant" from the MacArthur Foundation. For more about Cohen and his work, view the MacArthur Award video.
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- Associate Director of Sustainability Solutions
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Gwyneth is a seasoned management professional with over 20 years of experience in public health, hospital administration, higher education, and strategic purchasing who excels at fostering positive team dynamics and using quantitative analysis to understand complex problems and find practical solutions. She joins Practice Greenhealth after nine years as Boston Medical Center's director of professional operations. She also worked in the Center for Clinical Effectiveness at Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Department of Health Policy and Management at Harvard School of Public Health, and for the procurement departments of Yale University and Harvard University. She has extensive experience collaborating with strategic sourcing teams, rewriting and implementing new policies and procedures across complex organizational structures, change management, communications, and metrics development and reporting.
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- Communications Specialist
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- Partner Experience & Innovation Director
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Hillary has 15 years of experience in health care sustainability, from coordinating environmental initiatives for a hospital in West Michigan to facilitating a national market transformation collaboration across health care, food producers, and the supply chain. She holds a degree in sustainable business management and culinary arts. Hillary sits on the Southwest Michigan Local Food Council and enjoys spending time with her husband, son, and daughter camping, off-roading, and hiking in Michigan and around the country.
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Iqbal began his sustainability journey as a sustainability leader for a large health care organization - St. Elizabeth Hospital in Wisconsin. His fascination for understanding the intersection of the built and natural environments led to benchmarking over 200 properties in EPA's portfolio manager and calculating over 25 million metric tons of greenhouse gases. Iqbal has a background in process improvement and holds a Master of Science in sustainable management. Outside the office in the Twin Cities area in Minnesota, Iqbal enjoys mountain biking, exploring happy hour venues with his wife, and watching his six nieces and nephews grow up.
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- Global Finance Coordinator
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- U.S. Climate and Health Campaigner
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- Healthy Food in Health Care Climate and Food Strategy Associate Director
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- Safer Chemicals and Procurement Director
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- Senior Director of the Office for a Healthy Environment at Cleveland Clinic
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- Director of Global Partnerships
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- Sustainability Strategy Manager
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- Sustainability Strategy Manager
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- Director of Global Communications
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- Director of Climate Solutions
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- People and Culture Director
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- People and Culture Generalist
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- Communications Associate
- Director
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- Founder and Principal at Strategy for Scale
Kimberly Dasher Tripp is founder and principal of Strategy for Scale, where she advises high-impact organizations and private foundations. She partners with new and established philanthropists to build clear, impact-oriented strategies and processes to accelerate systems change. With social enterprises, she works on issues related to the nuanced art of scaling impact: strategic plans that drive measurable outcomes and can be operationalized; governance; leadership and talent; development strategy and growth plans; and impact measurement. She also conducts research and writes about philanthropy and social enterprise. She was previously principal on the portfolio team of the Skoll Foundation, where she ran the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship. Before Skoll, her experience included nonprofit, international development, and corporate marketing work. She has served on the board of mothers2mothers and the alumni board of the Center for Responsible Business at UC Berkeley.
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- Sustainability Strategy Manager
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- Senior Director of Data Strategy
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- Conference and Event Manager
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- Healthy Food in Health Care California Community Food Systems Regional Program Manager
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- Founder
- Partner
- Treasurer of the Board
Laurence W. Cohen is founder, partner, and CEO of Seven Bridges Advisors. Before founding Seven Bridges, Cohen worked as a managing partner at Ehrenkranz & Ehrenkranz and as a tax lawyer at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley, and McCloy, as well as at Shaw, Pittman, Potts, and Trowbridge. He served as a clerk for John Garrett Penn, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. He served as chairman of the Brown University investment committee from 2009 to 2015 and vice-chairman from 2015 to 2019, and as a trustee of the Brown University Corporation and a member of its executive committee. He served as chairman of the investment committees of the American Jewish Committee, the Jewish Communal Fund, and Health Leads USA. Currently, Cohen serves as a board member for Blythedale Children's Hospital and Brown University's Advisory Council on Economics. He was honored by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Primetime Emmy Awards for his contributions to VH1 Save the Music.
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- U.S. Communications Director
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- Healthy Food in Health Care Director of Regional Innovation and Community Resilience
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- Founder and Managing Director at Torana Group
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- International Chief Program Officer
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- Sustainability Strategy Manager
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- California Regional Program Manager
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- Healthy Food in Health Care Director of Regional Innovation and Equity
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- Global Green and Healthy Hospitals Network Director
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- Partner at McKinsey and Company
Nikhil Sahni is a partner at McKinsey and Company, advising health care organizations on corporate strategy, business-unit strategy, inorganic growth, and operational efficiency, and a leader in McKinsey's Center for U.S. Health System Reform. Sahni serves as a fellow with Professor David Cutler at the Harvard University department of economics. In his previous role as senior director of strategy, planning, and operations at a health care IT company, he helped raise $25 million and tripled the company's size. As policy director of cost trends and special projects for the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission, he used the state's all-payer claims database to identify opportunities to realize the state-wide spending benchmark. His academic work has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Health Affairs, Journal of the American Medical Association, British Medical Journal, Harvard Business Review, and Stanford Social Innovation Review, and has been cited in the Economist, Wall Street Journal, New Yorker, and Washington Post.
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- Digital Communications Manager
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- International Science and Policy Coordinator
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- IT Solutions Senior Director
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- Climate and Sustainability Data Scientist
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- Sustainability Strategy Manager
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- Growth & Partner Experience Director
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- Sustainability Solutions Director
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- Vice President
- Vice President for Corporate Responsibility at Dignity Health
Sister Mary Ellen Leciejewski serves as the vice president for corporate responsibility for Dignity Health, one of the nation's largest health care systems. Headquartered in San Francisco, Dignity Health provides patient-centered care at more than 380 care centers, including 39 acute care hospitals located in California, Arizona, and Nevada. She is responsible for directing Dignity Health's sustainability initiatives and developing and implementing system-wide policies and practices promoting care for the earth and sustainable use of resources. In her role, she facilitates communication networks among her colleagues and works closely with various hospital systems and environmental organizations throughout the country to raise awareness of health care's environmental impact and to promote programs and processes that improve sustainability.
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- Greenhealth Approved Program Director
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- Climate Policy Massachusetts Director
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- Market Transformation Manager
Tory Dietel Hopps manages portfolios for clients with both domestic and international interest as managing partner at Dietel Partners. She works closely with her team to define strategy, identify grantee and funding partners, and assist grantees with their strategies, resource development, and capacity-building needs. She works closely with funding partners to help with field building in areas of interest to her clients. She believes strongly in working toward better dynamics between the funding and grantseeking communities and takes a humanist approach to her work. Before joining Dietel Partners, she had a 25-year career in nonprofit resource development, management, and governance with a focus in education and health and human services. She was trained by BoardSource as a nonprofit governance consultant and was a principal at Turning Point Consulting, which focused on strategic planning and organizational capacity building in the nonprofit sector.
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- Associate Director of Regional Climate Solutions