I believe real change happens when systems listen to community - and work with them, not just in them.
For two decades, I helped mission-driven organizations build stronger, more connected communities. My focus is systems integration: helping health systems turn their good intentions into working systems where navigation, community partnerships, and performance all line up. That way, patients are treated as whole people and get supports that work together, not in isolation.
Built from both sides of the system.
For me, this work is both personal and professional. I’m a double cancer survivor, and that experience shapes everything I do. I’ve designed systems. I’ve also been the patient trying to get through one.
Whether I’m helping a hospital design patient navigation or a coalition align health and local systems to meet basic needs during cancer or chronic illness, I keep the people most affected at the center.
The same gap everywhere I’ve worked.
I started on the front lines in direct service. I ran employment and self-sufficiency programs and handled child care subsidy intake and eligibility in Pennsylvania and Virginia. Then, I worked on cross-agency strategy for health and human services in one of the nation’s largest counties.
At the National Association of Counties (NACo), I worked alongside elected and appointed officials to build stronger maternal health and early childhood systems and peer learning networks for rural, suburban, and urban counties. Then, a national non-profit designing and scaling substance use peer support models adopted across several states, communities, universities, and the federal government.
Across all of it, I kept finding the same structural gap: the distance between what a system offers and what a person can actually reach. Remedy & Root exists to close it in cancer care and chronic illness.
Where I Help
Systems integration and strategic transformation.
Community engagement and cross-sector collaboration.
Policy and program development at scale.
Capacity building and implementation support.
Selected Work and Service
Presenter, 18th World Congress on Public Health, Cape Town, 2026
Former Parent Advisory Board member, Bright Spot Network
B.S in Human Development & Family Studies, Master of Public Administration (MPA), and Harvard Medical School Executive Education in AI-Driven Health Care Transformation
I believe in working across ideologies to find shared solutions. But I won’t pretend that patching broken systems is a strategy. Real change takes courage and collaboration to build something new. That’s why I started Remedy & Root - because the future of care can be designed for how people actually live.
