HRIA - Key Persons
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- Program Coordinator for Healthy & Equitable Communities
Albaney Gray is a Program Coordinator for Healthy & Equitable Communities at HRiA. Albaney received her B.S. in Psychology from Florida A&M University and her Master of Public Health with a Maternal and Child Health concentration from Florida International University. Ms. Gray has experience in capacity building, community outreach, and cross-sector collaboration. She has a passion for addressing health inequities, dismantling racial disparities, and advocating for health promotion in all communities. Prior to joining HRiA, she worked with her local health department to support the counties COVID-19 surveillance and mitigation initiative.
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- Director on the Research
- Director, Research & Evaluation
Allyson Auerbach is a Director on the Research and Evaluation team. In this role, Allyson develops comprehensive research plans, conducts community health assessments, and evaluates the impact of health programs and policies. Allyson has significant quantitative and qualitative research experience organizing, collecting, analyzing, and reporting data for numerous assessments and evaluations, including several assessments that have focused on behavioral health. For the 2021 Statewide Assessment of Gambling and Problem Gambling in Illinois, Allyson led the stakeholder engagement and qualitative data components. Allyson has previously served as an evaluation manager for the Si Texas behavioral health integration evaluation, a study of integrated behavioral health models at nine sites throughout South Texas. Allyson has also managed an assessment of the impact of energy development on the behavioral health of women in Eastern Montana and Western North Dakota. In earlier years at HRiA, Allyson has been the project manager and core researcher for two county-level behavioral health assessments in Maryland. Prior to joining HRiA, Allyson worked in Southeastern Massachusetts where she provided technical assistance and training to substance abuse coalitions regarding assessment, planning, and implementation of policy, systems, and environmental strategies. Allyson holds a Master of Public Health degree from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Bachelor of Science degree in public health from Haverford College.
Amy is a Senior Staff Accountant at HRiA. She focuses on personnel allocation, monthly reconciliations, and process improvements. Prior to joining HRiA, she gained extensive experience in accounting and reporting for nonprofit organizations, where she focused on month-end closing, budgeting, grants reporting, and monthly reconciliations. Amy graduated with a BBA in accounting from Iona University.
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- Senior Advisor
- Senior Advisor, Training & Technical Assistance
Andrew Woods serves as a senior advisor for training and technical assistance at the HAVI, a fiscally-sponsored program at HRiA. He also serves as the executive director of Hartford Communities That Care that oversees the Hartford Care Response Team (HCRT), a HAVI member Hospital Linked Violence Intervention Program (HVIP) in the State of Connecticut. For over two decades, Mr. Woods has led public health-based coalitions with an emphasis on leveraging public policy to support and sustain violence prevention, intervention, treatment, and recovery efforts in communities of color. Under his leadership, the HCRT became the first Connecticut HVIP to secure Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) funds to support victims of violence and their families. Then in 2021,he led Connecticut' efforts to become the first state in the nation to enact legislation authorizing Medicaid to reimburse trained and certified Violence Prevention Professionals. In his role at the HAVI, Mr. Woods provides support to current and emerging HVIP's.
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- Manager, Training & Technical Assistance
Anna Thompson serves as Manager, Training & Technical Assistance for the HAVI, a fiscally-sponsored program at HRiA. Anna has extensive experience in advocacy for survivors of sexual and domestic violence, program outreach, and training in violence prevention such as bystander intervention. Prior to joining the HAVI, she lead the response to sexual assault on a college campus and served as an advocate at a community based organization. She has a BA in in Spanish & Latin American Literature and Culture from New York University and an MPH from The Ohio State University.
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- Community Capacity Building Manager / Technical Assistance Lead
Anthony Boone Jr. is a Community Capacity Building Manger with the COVID-19 Community Grants Program. Prior to HRiA, Anthony worked as a Public Health Associate in the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Public Health Associate Program (PHAP) and was stationed in Albuquerque, New Mexico working for the University of New Mexico's Center for Native American Health (CNAH). He supported CNAH's projects relating to Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, as well as their outreach projects for those experiencing homelessness, substance abuse, and mental illness. He is passionate about health and racial equity and community health education. In his free time, he enjoys gardening, cooking, traveling, and music. Anthony received his Interdisciplinary Bachelor of Arts in Africana Studies and Anthropology from Union College in 2019 and is currently obtaining a dual Master's degree in Social Work and Public Health from Boston University.
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- Senior Associate
- Senior Associate, Budget & Contracts
Bailey Mulqueen is a Senior Associate, Budget & Contracts on the Administration & Finance team at HRiA. She graduated from the University of Connecticut with a BA in Statistics & Economics and a MA in Public Policy. She worked previously as a Budget Analyst with the State of Connecticut's Office of Policy and Management through Health and Human Services.
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- Vice President, Health Equity
Brittany Chen, DrPH, is the Vice President of Health Equity at Health Resources in Action. She has extensive expertise in policy research, analysis, and translation, community engagement and mobilization, training and facilitation, and youth development. In her role, she oversees HRiA's internal health equity strategic planning work, and conducts health and racial equity assessment, capacity building, and strategic planning efforts for diverse entities including state and local government, community collaboratives, educational institutions, and philanthropic organizations. She holds a DrPH from Boston University's School of Public Health and an MPH from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University.
Bruce E. Landon, MD, MBA, MSc, is a professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School and a professor of medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He practices internal medicine at BIDMC.
Dr. Landon's primary research interest is assessing how different characteristics of physicians and health care organizations, ranging from health plans to physician group practices, impact physician behavior and health care service provision. Through this work, he has developed a theoretical model to explain how health care organizations affect the quality of care. He is currently involved in several projects to describe and quantify the impact of organizational characteristics and strategies, including quality improvement activities and financial incentives, on the provision of care. Dr. Landon has been funded as a Principal Investigator by the National Institute of Aging, the National Cancer Institute, and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
Dr. Landon graduated summa cum laude from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a major in finance. He received his MD degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and an MBA with a concentration in health care management from the Wharton School. He also received an MSc in health policy and management from the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Landon is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and an elected member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Professors.
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- Member of the Board
- Community Leader in Her Town of Arlington
Carole Allen, MD, MBA is a board certified pediatrician with extensive experience in clinical practice, practice administration, public health and health care policy. Before retiring from clinical practice in 2011, Dr. Allen was Director of Pediatrics for Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, where she was responsible for oversight of the health care of more than 70,000 children. From 2012 through 2017, she served on the Board of the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission that was created to improve quality of care while reducing total medical costs.
Dr. Allen represent ed New England on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and served two years as president of its Massachusetts Chapter. Under her guidance, the Chapter engaged state officials in discussions of the role of the medical home, focused on the importance of investing in early childhood to pave the way to lifelong health and success, and partnered with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health in obesity prevention and tobacco protection initiatives. Dr. Allen is Immediate Past President of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and served as president of the Tufts Medical Alumni Association.
Dr. Allen is also a community leader in her town of Arlington, where she has helped to develop and enforce regulations restricting the use of tobacco in public places. As Chair of the Tobacco Free Mass Coalition in 2004, she helped to pave the way to establish Massachusetts as a smoke-free workplaces state.
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- Member of the Board Leadership Team
- Treasurer
Charles Lord, JD is a Principal at Renew Energy Partners (RENEW), an energy efficiency and clean energy finance and development firm serving the retrofit market for commercial and industrial buildings. RENEW finances and develops the renovation of existing buildings to improve their energy performance, reduce climate emissions, provide a market-rate return to investors, and create jobs in cities.
Prior to RENEW, Charles worked at C-Quest Capital (CQC), where he helped launch CQC's Global Cook Stoves Program. CQC is a carbon finance business dedicated to developing high-quality emission reduction projects that provide superior returns for investors and energy services to low-income communities in Africa, India, and Latin America. Prior to CQC, Charles was a principal at SCRC, where he focused on sustainable infrastructure for energy, waste, and water. Charles also founded Alternatives for Community & Environment (Roxbury, MA), the largest environmental justice center in the Northeast, where he served as Co-Director until 1998 and member of the Board until 2004.
In 1998, Charles founded the Urban Ecology Institute at Boston College, and served as its Executive Director until 2008. He also taught in the Environmental Studies Program at Boston College until 2010. He has published numerous articles on environmental law, environmental justice and environmental policy. After completing law school, Charles clerked on the United States Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. Charles is a recipient of the Echoing Green Fellowship and the Barr Foundation Fellowship, and was Editor-in-Chief of the Virginia Law Review.
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- Building Assistance Manager
- Capacity Building Assistance Manager
Chris Cobb is a Capacity Building Assistance Manager with HRiA, focusing on capacity building and grantmaking for problem gambling projects. Chris has over a decade of professional experience in public health, across multiple states, topics, and approaches. In addition to public health, Chris is also a singer who currently performs in the Josephine's cabaret series in Boston. The focus of Chris's singing career is on bringing a sexuality and gender diversity lens to the Great American Songbook. Chris earned a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Michigan.
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- Administrative Coordinator
Christian Badillo is an Administrative Coordinator at HRiA. Christian has wide-ranging experiences in equity, diversity, and inclusion, program coordination, academic research, administration, and education. He currently serves as an EDI Fellow at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health while pursuing an MPH in Health and Social Behavior. Prior to joining HRiA, Christian was a high school math and social studies teacher at a public school in Austin, Texas. He has a BS in Biology and a minor in Political Science from Stanford University.
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- Senior Manager in the Health and Racial Equity Cluster
- Senior Manager, Health and Racial Equity
Cynthia Espinosa Marrero is a Senior Manager in the Health and Racial Equity cluster at HRiA. Cynthia has extensive experience in community engagement, racial and equity advocacy which led to be featured in Latina Magazine as a Latinx Changemaker in 2018 and recognized as a Commonwealth Heroines class of 2022 by the MA Commission of Status of Women. She holds a B.A. in Sustainable Food Management from UMass Amherst and a M.S. in Environmental Science from Antioch University New England.
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- Senior Community Capacity Building Manager
Dimitrios Booras is a Senior Community Capacity Building Manager on the Training & Capacity Building team at HRiA. Prior to joining HRiA, he worked with The Center for Hope and Healing and UTEC. He has a BA in English with a focus on Journalism and Professional Writing from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell.
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- Building Assistance Manager
- Capacity Building Assistance Manager
Donn Young is a Capacity Building Assistance Manager at HRiA. Mr. Young has extensive experience in program and operations management, recovery support services, and stakeholder engagement. He spent his early career with International Data Group (IDG) and its subsidiaries, in tradeshow operations and program development. More recently, he worked in several statewide agencies providing coaching, supervision and resources to individuals with substance use disorder. Donn identifies as a man with lived experience, advocates for peer training and coaching, LGBTQ+ equity, and is well-known in his South Shore community for his passionate approach to peer advocacy.
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- Community Outreach and Engagement Associate
Efrain Lozada is the Community Outreach and Engagement Associate at MA Substance Use Helpline at HRiA. Efrain has extensive experience in Substance Use Disorder, Multiple Pathways of Recovery and Harm Reduction. Prior to joining HRiA, he was the Program Director at St. Francis House and responsible for building the first recovery support center within a homeless day shelter, helping and supporting people that were at all levels of recovery while struggling with chronic homelessness. Efrain graduated Bunkerhill Community College with a Certification in Substance Abuse Counseling and Psychology and also attended Springfield College for his Bachelors in Substance Abuse. Efrain is a trained Recovery Coach through the Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery Center.
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- Administrative Coordinator
- Administrative Coordinator for the Training and Capacity Building Team
Eli Adler-Cohen is the Administrative Coordinator for the Training and Capacity Building team at HRiA. He graduated from Franklin and Marshall College with a B.A. in Sociology and a minor in Spanish, and has experience in community engagement as well as volunteering and mentoring.
Eric Kramer, PhD was the Chief Financial Officer and Director of Research and Strategic Planning at the Plymouth Rock Company for seven years until 2012, when he took a sabbatical to write a book. He received a BA in Biology from Williams College and worked in a biophysics lab for a year before returning to school to get a PhD in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and a JD from Harvard Law School. Dr. Kramer also teaches insurance regulation and law and economics at Suffolk Law School. He is very interested in public health and health policy insurance issues program evaluation and methodological issues in epidemiology. Dr. Kramer resides in Jamaica Plain and has an identical twin brother.
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- Managing Director of Budgets and Contracts
Erika Sturm is a Managing Director of Budgets and Contracts at HRiA. Erika has over a decade of experience in non-profit grants management, finance, and budgeting and planning. Prior to joining HRiA, Erika led a team in the planning and administration of an $88M portfolio of public awards. Erika earned her Masters in Business Administration from Boston University's Questrom School of Business, and her Bachelors of Science in Business Administration and Bachelors of Arts in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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- Senior Director of Marketing
Erna Alfred Liousas is the Senior Director of Marketing at HRiA. Her work at American Express, Raytheon, boutique consulting firms, a global market research firm, and as an entrepreneur contributes to her strategy, marketing, customer experience, and process expertise. She is passionate about the power of connection between people and technology to drive a positive impact for employees, clients, and the community. Ms. Alfred Liousas earned a Master of Business Administration from Boston University and a Bachelor of Arts from Brandeis University.
Fatimah leads the HAVI as its first executive director, a fiscally-sponsored program at HRiA. Her vision for social change has been shaped by a rich heritage of resilience in the wake of harm, from her father's incarceration to her family's experiences with homelessness. She believes that it is the expansion of healing support and relationships, the elevation of community voice, and the mobilization of community power that catalyzes those who have been harmed to be authors of their own transformation. Fatimah is fighting for a system that centers racial equity, preventive public health strategies, and trauma-informed support to break intergenerational cycles of harm. Prior to joining the HAVI, she was deputy director of Equal Justice USA, a national criminal justice reform organization. Fatimah narrowly lost a bid for the Pennsylvania state legislature at the age of 27 and has received numerous honors and distinctions, including the 2018 Robert Wood Johnson Culture of Health Leaders Fellowship. She is a psychotherapist by training and a proud Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.
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- Senior Program Manager for Training and Technical Assistance
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- Immediate past Chair
- Member of the Board Leadership Team
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- Managing Director of Healthy & Equitable Communities
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- Community Capacity Building Manager
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- Information Technology Manager
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- Senior Operations and Projects Manager, NACHW
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- Senior Manager of Development, the HAVI
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- Projects & Marketing Associate
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- Budgets and Contracts Associate
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- Community Capacity Building Manager
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- Managing Director of Capacity Building, Te HAVI
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- Member of the Board Leadership Team
- Vice Chair
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- Senior Manager of CVI Ecosystems, the HAVI
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- Chairman
- Member of the Board Leadership Team
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- Member of the Board
- Vice President of Community Life for the Community Builders
Elizabeth González Suárez, MA is vice president of Community Life for The Community Builders (TCB), Inc. (Boston), a position she has held since 2016. Elizabeth advances the powerful role that TCB and partner institutions can play in providing stability and social connections for seniors and access to opportunity for families in TCB communities. She also serves on the Jordan Boys & Girls Club Advisory Board, and the Roxbury Mass in Motion Leadership Team.
Ms. González Suárez received her bachelor and master's degrees in psychology from Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela. She is married with two sons and is a strong community arts advocate and supporter.
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- Coordinator, Peer Learning
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- Member of the Board Leadership Team
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- Clerk
- Member of the Board Leadership Team
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- Managing Director Communities of Practice
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- Director, Training and Capacity Building
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- STEM Teaching Track Program Associate