CEARCH Directory
Communications Workgroup
Co-Director
Areas of Expertise:
Community-based participatory research, prevention interventions
Elisia Cohen, PhD
Professor, Director
James DeSota
Assistant Executive Director
Yasamin Graff, MPH
Community Engagement Specialist
Michelle Hoedeman
Contract Communications Professional
UMN Clinical and Translational Science Institute
Communications Workgroup Faculty Lead and Professor
Areas of Expertise:
Equity, injuries, alcohol use and problems, policy, neighborhood influences
Cindy Kaigama, MA
Health Equity Design Partner
Deatrick LaPointe, PhD
CEO
Take-Care, LLC
Mitchell Rosenbloom***
Inpatient Community Health Worker
Chaz Sandifer
Communications Workgroup Community Co-Lead and CEO / Founder
Susan Severson
Vice President, HIT Services
Cherylee Sherry
Health Systems Manager
Tamara Stark
Senior Director of Housing and Youth Development
Makeda Zulu-Gillespie, MPA
Executive Director
Education Workgroup
Awo Ahmed
Community Engagement Coordinator
Co-Director
Areas of Expertise:
Community-based participatory research, prevention interventions
Wilhelmina Holder
Executive Director
Amna Hussein
Community Engagement Coordinator
Zachary Hylton
Education Workgroup Community Co-Lead and Interim Integrated Health & Justice Administrator
Catherine Jordan
Associate Professor
Julia Joseph-Di Caprio
CEO/Founder
Lead Pediatrics
Sylvette Lopez-Ruth
COVID Community Coordinator
Mary Maronde
Research Education Program Associate
Joy Marsh
Associate Vice-President of Equity & Inclusion
Sheila Riggs
Education Workgroup Faculty Co-Lead and Department Chair
Chaz Sandifer
CEO / Founder
Alana Wright
Executive Director
Research Workgroup
Amira Adawe
Founder
Sayali Amarapurkar
Research Workgroup Community Co-Lead and Executive Director
Paulette Baukol
Lead Project Manager
Sara Bolnick
Director of Communications and Partnerships
Research Workgroup Faculty Co-Lead and Professor
UMN School of Public Health
Wilhelmina Holder
Executive Director
Angela Lewis-Dmello
President/CEO
Sylvette Lopez-Ruth
COVID Community Coordinator
Joy Marsh
Associate Vice-President of Equity & Inclusion
Audrey Seligman
Americorps Vista
Tamara Stark
Senior Director of Housing and Youth Development
Antony Stately
CEO
Alana Wright
Executive Director
***Represents members in the process of onboarding to a Workgroup