A Pathfinder Council guides the direction, priorities, and processes of Policy at Healthforce’s work and serves as connectors to the many perspectives and communities across California. Pathfinder Council members play an essential role in co-designing how our work elevates, prioritizes, and responds to health workforce challenges and opportunities. Our inaugural Pathfinder Council worked with us to define our impact and anchor our work, craft decision-making criteria, and identify, clarify, and improve our initial priorities.
Our Pathfinder Council ensures community input drives research priorities and policy products support community advocacy. They represent many diverse perspectives, communities, and experiences, and, as systems thinkers and challengers, they hold us accountable to our mission. We are grateful to be joined by these members (pictured below from left to right alphabetically):
- Rehman Attar, director, California State University, Office of the Chancellor (not pictured)
- Lisa Countryman-Quiroz, CEO, JVS - Bay Area
- Crispin Delgado, executive director, Insure the Uninsured Project
- Virginia Hedrick, executive director, California Consortium for Urban Indian Health
- Kiran Savage-Sangwan, executive director, California Pan-Ethnic Health Network
- Van Ton-Quinlivan, CEO, Futuro Health
- Melissa Torres-Montoya, senior director, Health Career Connection
