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Adam Waskow
Entrepreneur focused on brain health and equity; owner, Three Home Village Assisted Living facility
Researching how animal-assisted therapies and interventions could affect care and improve outcomes in a variety of environments and applications; in particular, the use of therapy dogs with dementia patients.
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Adit Friedberg
Research fellow, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
Unraveling the neural mechanisms that underlie the emergence of visual artistic creativity in frontotemporal dementia.
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Adrian N. Billings
Associate academic dean of rural health at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Permian Basin
Researching health workforce programs to enable more health career students to choose a career caring for patients who otherwise might not receive health care.
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Akshita Siddula
Community Organizer
Recruiting and training health care activists and organizers to push for policies that create a just health care system.
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Alberto Retana
President and chief executive officer, Community Coalition
Building a multiracial organizing model that increases the ability of Black and Brown residents in Los Angeles to win policy change, resource redistribution and neighborhood improvements.
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Alicia Garza
Principal, Black Futures Lab
Building the movement for Black lives by engaging in narrative change efforts and direct action organizing.
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Alissa Bernstein Sideman
Assistant professor, Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
Researching ways to improve the diagnosis and care of people living with dementia in primary care settings, and creating effective interventions tailored to the sociocultural context of patients and their caregivers, with attention to social determinants of ill health.
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Amanda Brosnan
Assistant professor, University of North Texas Health Science Center
Practicing health care in a local public health department, working primarily in infectious disease management. Serving patients and the community, advocating for health equity for all.
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Ambrose Carroll
Founder and senior pastor, Renewal Worship Center; founder and chief executive officer, Green the Church
Leading the congregation at Renewal Worship Center; also leading Green the Church, an organization at the intersection of the U.S. Black faith community and environmental justice.
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Angela T. Echiverri
Family and community medicine physician, Contra Costa Health Services; core faculty, Contra Costa Family Medicine Residency Program
Bringing a radical love, tender heart and strident values to reimagine and cultivate spaces of belonging where we can collectively heal, dismantle racism and oppression, and manifest equity and justice.
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Anne Browning
Assistant dean for well-being, School of Medicine, The University of Washington
Promoting resilience, brain health and well-being for health care teams. Developing support for people engaging in equity work, expanding practices and competencies for distress tolerance.
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Anne Laux
Peace officer training compliance officer, Ohio Peace Officer Training Commission, Office of the Ohio Attorney General
Researching the availability and accessibility of mental health wellness services for law enforcement officers in Ohio, and developing a resource guide for creating and funding wellness bureaus.
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Aria Florant
Co-founder, Liberation Ventures
Leading Liberation Ventures, a U.S. nonprofit organization that is building the power to win federal, comprehensive reparations for Black Americans.
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Arissa Hall
Leader and organizer, Blackseed
Utilizing experiences as a leader and organizer in the movement for liberation to grow BlackSeed, a cannabis equity consultant company that supports equity and justice through a reparative framework.
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Artanesha L. Jackson
FINDconnect program manager, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital
Improving access to resources addressing social determinants of health to eliminate health disparities among adolescents with complex trauma in Oakland.
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Betsy Hodges
Adviser, Betsy Hodges LLC
Building a framework, based on compassion, through which white people effectively work with one another on whiteness and racism, then scale up to have systemic impact.
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Boon Lead Tee
Neurologist and assistant professor, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
Developing an anatomical-specific and linguistically adapted Chinese Language Assessment in PPA battery for the Chinese-speaking population. Studying impacts of cultural characteristics on social cognitive functions.
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Bram P. Wispelwey
Associate physician, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Developing solutions to institutional racism in hospital access. Leading a community health program in Palestinian refugee camps. Refining public health approaches to COVID-19.
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Brandi M. Payton
Clinic administrator, Cherokee Nation Cooweescoowee Health Center
Leading efforts to re-envision primary care training that focuses on the integration of behavioral health into primary care.
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Brandon Nicholson
Executive director, The Hidden Genius Project
Promoting equity in education as founding executive director of an organization that trains and mentors Black male youth in technology creation, entrepreneurship and leadership skills.
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Brenda Hughes
Regional community health coordinator, South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control
Developing community coalitions, building sustainable communities and addressing root causes of health inequities.
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Brian Kamanzi
Energy policy research associate, Trade Unions for Energy Democracy, City University of New York
Providing technical policy support for sections of the South African trade union movement around the Just Energy Transition; and contributing to local and international debate on climate change, Pan-Africanism and free education, among other issues.
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Brigit M. Carter
Chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer, American Association of Colleges of Nursing
Leading efforts that increase understanding and dismantle the historical and current system structures that are barriers to higher education and inclusive practices within those institutions.
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Cedric Brown
Vice president, Global Leadership Programs, Obama Foundation
Promoting leadership development in social impact and cultural spaces globally, with a special interest in the African diaspora.
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Cheyenne Mize
Certificated music therapist; host/producer of “Can You Hear Me?” audio program
Using music for individual and community aims, with a particular interest in equitable access to creative wellness opportunities for people of all ages and levels of ability or experience.
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Christina T. Rosenthal
Founder, Determined to be a Doctor Someday
Practicing general dentistry, directing a youth nonprofit organization to develop a generation of health care leaders to care for underresourced communities, and writing children’s books to inspire.
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Christopher Petrella
Writer, researcher and strategist, Kaepernick Endeavors
Exploring the histories of racialization and resistance, and the ways that race is constructed and contested.
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Cindy Weinstein
Eli and Edythe Broad Professor of English, California Institute of Technology
Recently published “Finding the Right Words: A Story of Literature, Grief, and the Brain,” written with Dr. Bruce Miller, based on her experience of coming to terms with her father’s diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.
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Claire Sexton
Director, Scientific Programs and Outreach, Alzheimer's Association
Leading research programs and initiatives to accelerate the Alzheimer’s Association’s scientific agenda.
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Claire Thomas
Economic development coordinator, East Side Neighborhood Development Company
Working with community members to design and implement innovative solutions for more inclusive economic systems in community development.
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Cristiano Schaffer Aguzzoli
Neurologist; postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Pittsburgh
Researching the impact of imaging and blood-based biomarkers in characterizing and predicting neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.
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Damien Miller
Minister counsellor for strategic communications, Australian Embassy (in U.S.)
Developing a hub for best practice policy to improve socioeconomic outcomes for Indigenous peoples, particularly in the IndoPacific.
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Dana Walrath
Writer, artist, and anthropologist
Practicing a blend of creative writing, comics, art and anthropology, and believing in the power of the arts for social change. Offering ways to heal from and end global challenges of dehumanization, dementia, racism, and genocide.
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Daniel Mistak
Acting president and director of health care initiatives for justice-involved populations, Community Oriented Correctional Health Services
Developing and implementing policies to improve connections between community and correctional health systems. Improving community behavioral health systems to reduce the role of the criminal justice system for people with unmet mental health needs.
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Danielle Woodhouse Johnson
Founder, The Oasis Alliance
Improving the lives of trauma survivors by co-creating personal spaces that promote mental health and well-being.
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Dany Sigwalt
Managing director, Green Leadership Trust
Cultivating leadership of movements that foster effective, powerful coalitions and cross-issue solidarity; currently supporting youth power and building power across the climate and racial justice movements.
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Dearbhla Kelly
Clinical research fellow/Ph.D. candidate, Centre for the Prevention of Stroke & Dementia, Nuffield Dept. of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford
Researching the overlap between renal and neurological diseases.
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Della Z Duncan
Renegade economist; host of "Upstream" podcast; coach and facilitator, Right Livelihood
Inviting paradigm and worldview shifts to contribute to the just transition to more equitable and sustainable economies through storytelling, coaching, consulting and facilitating.
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Deloris "Dela" Wilson
Founder and managing director, Axle Impact Studio
Leading strategies to decolonize development efforts through the redirection of capital, cultural influence and opportunity.
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Devon Carbado
Professor of law, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Working to advance an intersectional approach to racial justice; and creating and sustaining inclusive, equitable learning environments.
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Devon Simmons
Co-founder and associate director, Paralegal Pathways Initiative at Columbia Law School
Creating new narratives of those formerly incarcerated while using education as the integral tool to help empower marginalized communities worldwide.
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Dvera Saxton
Associate professor, Department of Anthropology, California State University; affiliated researcher, California Institute of Rural Studies
Developing community-driven approaches to research, and creative teaching and learning around aging, brain health, and Disability Justice in rural and immigrant communities in California.
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Edgar Villanueva
Founder and chief executive officer, Decolonizing Wealth Project
Leading Decolonizing Wealth Project, which aims to collectively promote a world vision in which everyone can live their best lives, thrive in their cultures and bring about healing from generations of colonial trauma.
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Elana Needle
Founder and principal consultant, Needle Strategies LLC
Leading partnership development, strategy, organizing and campaign support for racial justice organizations fighting for an equitable multiracial democracy.
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Elena Rivera
Senior consultant, Rede Group
Advocating to improve child health by testing innovative community and state solutions, centering equity and anti-racism, and co-creating policy and systems change.
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Eliza Squibb
Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Collaborating with artists and artisans worldwide to create culturally contextualized patient education tools to improve information equity and health literacy among low-resource populations.
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Emily MacDonald
Director, business operations, Erie Family Health Centers
Strengthening clinical operations to optimize health outcomes and workforce development at a federally qualified health center that provides care in underresourced communities in Chicago.
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Erin Smith
Student and researcher, Stanford University
Developing technology to build an objective, personalized and preemptive brain health future, as well as developing neuroscience-inspired policy to put brain health at the center of socioeconomic recovery and resilience.
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Esperanza Felicidad Cantú
Director of health initiatives, United Way for Southeastern Michigan
Partnering across community and health to develop a network and infrastructure to share data, collaborate on care management, and build a proactive and equitable care system that meets people’s needs.
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Foluke Adetola Ojelabi
Advocacy officer, UNICEF
Advocating for children’s rights, promoting access, demand and equity for public services needed by children and women, especially the most marginalized.
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Gabri Christa
Associate professor of professional Practice; director of Movement Lab, Barnard College, Colombia University
Facilitating art initiatives focused on understanding one another’s humanity. Curating dance, education and film events aimed at removing stigma around age and race.
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Gabrielle Jackson
Founder & psychotherapist, Diasporic Healing LLC
Increasing accessibility to mental health support through the creation of community spaces and recruitment, training and development of Black immigrants to be community wellness facilitators.
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Gilberto Lopez
Assistant professor, University of Arizona
Researching and developing interventions to reduce health inequities.
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Gillian Fallon
Volunteer organizer, Wesleyan University
Working with artists and scientists to help build intergenerational connections between people living with dementia, caregivers and the broader community.
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Gloria Annette Aguirre
Program manager for community outreach, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Memory and Aging Center
Advocating for long-term investments to improve health literacy and access to care in often marginalized communities.
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Gulnar Feerasta
Director of programs, LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland
Building strong support systems while improving the quality of life through long-term policy and social change.
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Heidi Clare Lambert
Music educator and performer
Producing a radio program about aging and the creative process, showing how brains benefit from musical engagement. Also developing a musical curriculum for adult day health.
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Holiday Simmons
Founder, Southern Soul Wellness
Facilitating mediation for group conflicts, and convening healers to support the wellness of frontline organizers and those most impacted by trauma and oppression.
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Hope Elizabeth Rhodes
Medical director, Children's Health Center-THEARC, Children's National Hospital
Developing pediatric community-based initiatives in concert with community partners. Fundraising and grant writing. Leveraging voices of teens and young adults to inform health care.
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Ifeanyi McWilliams Nsofor
Physician and health policy advocate, Upswell LLC
Developing policies and strategies, researching, writing opinion pieces, advocating for universal health care, decolonizing global health, mentoring and connecting social issues to health care.
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Jake Broder
Playwright, North Coast Repertory Theater
Harnessing creativity and empathy to help us on this journey to brain health.
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Jalayne Arias
Associate professor, Department of Health Policy and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health, Georgia State University
Investigating the legal and ethical challenges associated with the individual and social burden linked with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias through public policy initiatives.
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James Huang
Director of student health services, Gallaudet University.
Providing patient-centered primary care to multicultural, urban underserved patients, including deaf adults and children. Implementing “food as medicine” programs.
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Jamie Talan
Science writer, Neurology Today
Developing and implementing an online monthly lecture series and a U.S. support group for patients with posterior cortical atrophy and their caregivers.
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Jane Sloane
Senior director, Women's Empowerment and Gender Equality, The Asia Foundation
Working to advance gender equality globally. Currently writing a book on activism at home and in the world to address inequalities.
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Jennie Gubner
Assistant professor of ethnomusicology; chair, Applied Intercultural Arts Research, Graduate Interdisciplinary Program, University of Arizona
Promoting models of dementia education through music, filmmaking and service-learning. Building bridges between ethnomusicology and the health sciences.
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Jennifer Njuguna
Chief operating officer, Common Future
Empowering Black, Indigenous and other communities of color, strengthening the internal practices of organizations that partner with them on strategy, organizational culture, diversity, equity, inclusion and anti-racism.
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Jessica Feierman
Senior managing director, Juvenile Law Center
Co-leading a national effort to end the harmful and discriminatory practice of imposing fines and fees in the juvenile justice system.
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Jessica Milberg-Haydu
Director, national office emergency preparedness, Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Planning and building relationships at the intersection of public health and emergency management to nurture more equitable, prepared and resilient organizations and communities.
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Jessica Mofield
Chief advancement officer, Tides Advocacy
Overseeing sustainability and communications strategy at Tides Advocacy. Also supporting work on the organization’s reparations framework and leveraging storytelling to shift narratives about the power of grassroots organizations.
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Jitu Brown
National director, Journey for Justice Alliance
Building power in Black communities for over 25 years. Using community organizing to win equity in public education.
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Joan Jones
Executive director, Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Washington State Council
Leading progressive change in the United States Workers Rights Movement and building a more equitable world for all people, especially those who experience marginalization across various forms of intersectional identities.
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Joedrecka S. Brown Speights
Professor and chair of family medicine and rural health, College of Medicine, Florida State University
Leading in family medicine and rural health to promote health equity for underrepresented communities and champion well-being globally via partnership, engagement, primary care, research and education.
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Johnny Miller
Photographer, Unequal Scenes; News Fellow, Code for Africa; founder, africanDRONE
Working to creatively communicate systems and processes relating to economic, environmental and social justice issues. Managing a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating a drone community “for good.”
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Jordi Luke
Chief executive officer, Haus of Transcendent
Supporting global LGBTQ+ leaders, championing health equity in government programs and funding opportunities, and curating fashion art that expands society’s understanding on gender diversity.
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Jorge Llibre Guerra
Assistant professor, Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine; assistant director, Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network Trials Unit
Researching admixture, ethnicity and health-social disparities in dementia. Developing a program in Cuba to train health care providers and educate the community about aging, mental health and dementia.
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Josh Kornbluth
Monologuist, filmmaker and video host
Connecting brain science with social justice by hosting, writing and producing the video series “Citizen Brain,” and by creating a theatrical monologue about empathy and democracy.
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Karen-Ann Daniels
Director of programming and artistic director, Folger Theatre
Widening access to the experiences of creating and seeing theater to communities that historically have not had access, including incarcerated communities; telling stories as an actor, director, playwright, vocalist and musician.
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Kate Daugherty
Director, community resource corps - Mayor’s Office of Civic Engagement and Volunteer Services, City of Philadelphia
Combining key tools from transitional justice and conflict resolution with trauma-informed practices to help communities reconnect and heal from violence.
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Kelvin Sauls
Community organizer and former senior pastor, Holman United Methodist Church
Deconstructing and dismantling schemes, systems and structures that violate the humanity and dignity of Black people to achieve a more just and equitable world.
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Kenneth T. Jones
Supervisory program analyst and data lead, VHA Office of Health Equity
Advising on quantitative data and other measures to better understand and address health equity issues for veterans.
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Kevin Beckford
Co-founder, The Hustlers Guild; senior director of programs, partnerships and strategy, Honored
Supporting policy and outreach for U.S. public schools; also the co-founder of The Hustlers Guild, a nonprofit that uses hip hop to expand access and opportunity to Black and Latinx youth in the innovation space.
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