About
I'm a Bay Area native who has called Oakland home since 2017. I'm the VP of Product and Programs at HealthBegins, where I work on the conditions — housing, food, transportation, connection — that shape the health of neighborhoods. As a first-gen American, former Medicaid member, and former frontline worker, I bring lived experience to that work, and I've grown increasingly convinced that hyper-local is where real change happens.
A trained permaculture designer, I see healthy communities the way I see healthy ecosystems: built from the ground up.
I've been leaning into AI-native product development: rapid prototyping, design systems, evals, shipping code, analytics, onboarding, marketing. However, I truly believe there is no substitute to co-designing with people with lived experience.
Outside of work, you'll find me at farmers markets or organizing hyperlocal resilience efforts right in my own neighborhood.
Experience
HealthBegins helps Medicaid-serving clients move upstream and advance health equity. I lead the design and development of impact-driven products, driving new capabilities, revenue streams, and client value while advancing our mission.
- Designed and launched the Social Needs Investment Lab, the Health Equity Policy Hub, and HealthBegins Academy
- Manage the product management and program operations teams, developing AI-native workflows for prototyping, shipping code, analytics, and automations
- Develop blended value financial models and support innovative financing for health equity investments
AI-native product development: rapid prototyping, brand and design systems, evals, shipping code, analytics, onboarding, and marketing.
I took an intentional 9 month sabbatical to rest, spend quality time with loved ones, travel, and learn. At the end I felt energized, restored, and excited to jump back into work.
Promoted from Senior Product Manager. I led a portfolio of products for plans and providers focused on improving member health, optimizing care utilization, and lowering overall cost of care.
- Developed and managed 8 products with consistent growth in monthly active users across 4 large anchor health plan customers and their provider partners
- Hired and managed 4 product managers, with a 100% manager approval rating
- Led 3 agile pods of 20+ engineers, data analysts, data scientists, program managers, and designers
- Generalized custom products into standard, configurable ones — cutting implementation time by 80% and raising team satisfaction
- Built product fundamentals training for associate product managers
I worked with cross-functional leaders, C-suite executives, and external partners to develop new product, portfolio, and market-level strategies.
- Launched and managed Rally’s health equity programs across provider search, virtual care delivery, and social needs resources
- Facilitated ideation, managed stakeholders, ran design research, built financial models and business cases, and wrote requirements for a new omni-channel activation product
- Managed a global enterprise team on internationalization and localization requirements and an international go-to-market strategy
- Developed frameworks for new product development and product inclusion
Promoted from Business Analyst and Product Manager. I conceptualized new products, led teams through service design processes, and aligned with internal business units to pilot and operationalize them.
- Designed and built the Community Resource Finder — finding community organizations addressing social determinants, referring members, and measuring health outcomes
- Led researchers, designers, and engineers to identify pain points and value propositions, quantify market opportunity, and pilot solutions
- Launched a health equity community and blog with the Chief Health Equity Officer
- Delivered 25+ visual data products and geospatial analyses in ArcGIS and Tableau for 15+ customers
- Pitched, secured, and managed $1M+ in capital committee funding
I helped build and grow Minnesota’s largest healthcare innovation community.
- Built and managed the operations, data, and content teams — eight people
- Produced 80+ monthly events connecting startups, industry, investors, and talent
- Grew membership from 500 to 2,000+ individuals and raised $40k+ a year from partners and sponsors
During the first year of the Affordable Care Act, I worked on the frontlines of an FQHC — helping people apply for health insurance, connecting them to community resources, and addressing basic needs.
- Assisted 800+ clients with the health insurance application process
- Designed the staff protocol and workflow for referring patients to navigators
- Produced social marketing materials promoting preventive health and care-seeking behavior
Thought leadership and program design in the Health, Nutrition, and Population sector of the Latin America and Caribbean unit.
- Researched and co-authored a book on the impact of the first thousand days of life on health and economic outcomes in Latin America
- Produced briefs on chronic disease, social determinants, and health monitoring
- Revised and translated documents from Spanish and Portuguese to English