Lupita Ambriz graduated with a Master of Public Health from UC Berkeley, where her focus was Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health. She earned her BS in Nutrition Science from UC Davis, and she has combined her education background to expand her research interests. She previously worked with the UCSF’s CA Preterm Birth Initiative (PTBi) to assist with a landscape analysis to identify the barriers affecting human milk feeding practices in SF County. While at PTBi, she conducted many stakeholder interviews to help guide and establish a lactation feeding coalition in SF.

Yoselin Gonzalez Castillo is a Research Analyst for the UCSF Latinx Center of Excellence (LCOE) in the Division of Internal Medicine. As a Research Analyst, she provides programmatic support to the following LCOE programs: PROF-PATH, SALUD, Clínica Martín-Baró (CMB), and the Aspiring Physicians Program (APP) at Fresno State. Yoselin is also a Program Coordinator for the COVID-19 Vaccine Speakers Group and the Community Vaccine Ambassador Program, which are organized and led by the LCOE in partnership with the SF Dept. of Public Health and The Unity Council.

Madison is a recent graduate from Santa Clara University where she received a double major in Anthropology and Public Health Sciences. Prior to returning to the LCOE, Madison worked at Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative (NHHI) on the CA Statewide Study of Homelessness conducting quantitative and qualitative interviews across CA with people experiencing homelessness. This project was a direct ask from Governor Newsom and the largest study of homelessness ever to be done.

Francine Rios-Fetchko recently graduated from Yale University with a BA in Political Science and concentration in Public Health. She is particularly interested in continuing her research in health equity and economic justice for vulnerable populations.