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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.
Type: Staff
Malini Ramanarayanan Moraghan is founder and managing director of Torana Group, a novel investment firm that helps people invest in their convictions, investing debt and equity into businesses where human and natural resources are strategic drivers of enterprise value. She has spent 20 years balancing margin and mission, working at the intersection of finance, strategy, food and agriculture, and ESG investments. She has advised family offices, national foundations, food and agriculture investors, and USDA leaders. Her imprint is on over $50 million in capital deployed toward more resilient… Read More
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John loves food and spends most of his day thinking about what he will make for dinner. When he isn’t meal planning, John is working with health care in New England to engage them in regional and national efforts to build food systems that are equitable and health promoting. He has worked in environmental health for over a decade and is passionate about the power of health care to build healthy, resilient communities.
Type: Staff
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.
Type: Staff
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… Read More
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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… Read More
Type: Staff
Hill-Espinoza is the national lead, Southern California regional liaison, and manager of strategic partnerships for economic impact within impact spending at Kaiser Permanente. Passionate about closing the health-wealth gap, Hill-Espinoza’s work sits at the intersection of social, environmental, and economic equity. She is responsible for development, implementation, and execution of complex, cross-functional strategic initiatives that leverage the organization’s purchasing power, as well as total health strategy as a vehicle for addressing the social determinants of health. By layering… Read More
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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… Read More
Type: Staff
Jon E. Utech is senior director of the Office for a Healthy Environment at Cleveland Clinic, where he develops sustainability strategies to impact environmental and community health. Utech sets Cleveland Clinic’s environmental goals and develops strategies to achieve them. He also directs the organization’s sustainability reporting using the United Nations Global Compact and GRI frameworks. He leads the organization’s climate action which includes policy engagement, decarbonization, climate resilience, energy efficiency, and renewable energy. He serves as chair of the Ohio Hospital… Read More
Type: Staff
Lucia has experience working in educational development and community organizing in the United States, Mexico, and parts of South America. She loves to grow, can, ferment, glean, and prepare all kinds of foods. When not in her kitchen in Berkeley, California, Lucia also likes to hike, swim, read, and hang out with her kids, Henry and Lila.
Type: Staff
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