Founder

With nearly three decades in nursing and healthcare leadership, I’ve witnessed both the harm and the healing that systems can create. That experience fuels my commitment to quality, safety, equity, and transformational change and it’s why I founded Root & Rise Health Coalition.

My mission is simple but ambitious: to transform systems by embedding trauma-informed practices and psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) awareness into every layer of care and leadership. That means redesigning structures, coaching leaders and teams, and building culturally responsive, healing-centered operations that move beyond policy on paper and become living culture.

I’ve learned that healing happens when leaders, teams, and communities feel psychologically safe, culturally seen, and deeply supported in their mission. That’s when outcomes change. That’s when equity becomes real.

At Root & Rise, we’re not just educating systems, we’re building them. From fundraising to governance, from executive coaching to frontline training, we help organizations and communities co-create systems that last; because change that isn’t sustainable isn’t justice.

Our coalition exists to reimagine leadership at every level: where care is culturally responsive, leadership is relational and grounded, and well-being isn’t an afterthought; it’s the strategy. Together, we’re creating sustainable change: change that recruits and retains diverse talent, empowers community members to step into leadership, and ensures every system reflects the voices it serves.

Root & Rise is here to build the future of community health, equity, and care from the root up, so we all rise.