Meet the Team

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  • Rea Pañares brings over 20 years of diverse experience in various sectors including policy advocacy, philanthropy, public health, civic tech and government. Her career is marked by a strong commitment to community health and equity. As the Chief Operating Officer at One Degree (formerly Alluma), she led operations, internal communications and culture, strategy and performance management. Previously, as the senior advisor at Prevention Institute, Rea led initiatives to advance the Community-Centered Health Homes model—a framework for supporting health care systems in partnering with communities to improve health.

    Pañares held several roles during her time in Washington D.C., including Director of Minority Health Initiatives at Families USA, and positions with Grantmakers In Health, National Business Group on Health and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She is a founding board member of the Hella Heart Oakland Giving Circle, a network of individuals that pool their giving and fundraise to support projects and community-based organizations in the city of Oakland, CA. She holds a master's degree in health policy and management from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a bachelor's degree in molecular and cellular biology from the University of California, Berkeley.

  • Tina Yuen has over 14 years of experience scaling impact to advance policy, systems, and environmental change for healthier, more equitable and sustainable communities by centering the voices of priority communities. As a manager and leader, she had led organizational strategies, priorities, and workflows that enable teams to amplify the reach of their collective work in creating transformative community change. Tina is deeply committed to fostering equity and justice through collaboration and has worked with a multitude of partners including local governments and their community partners, community-based organizations, state and regional governments, national organizations, and federal agencies.

    Prior to CACHI, Tina served as the Managing Director of Policy at ChangeLab Solutions. She has also held positions at Raimi+Associates and the National Associations of County & City Health Officials (NACCHO) where she worked at the intersection of public health, urban planning, and sustainability. As an Environmental Public Health Fellow at the US Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, DC, she supported and conducted research on environmental justice initiatives and bolstering community participation in scientific research. Tina was also an inaugural Steering Committee member of the Public Health for Community Power Coalition, a network of non-governmental public health organizations committed to supporting community power building organizations. She also served as the Vice Chair of the Transportation Commission in the City of Alameda, CA from 2019 to 2024. Tina holds a Masters of Public Health and a Masters of City Planning from the University of California, Berkeley.

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  • Arpiné provides program management, technical assistance, facilitation and logistical oversight for Community Partners’ strategic health initiatives. Her background includes policy and program development, coalition building, and public sector, nonprofit and community collaboration. During her tenure with Community Partners, Arpiné managed the Kaiser Permanent Healthy Eating Active Living and Southern California Thriving Schools initiatives. Prior to joining Community Partners, she was the City of El Monte Health and Wellness Coordinator for the Policies for Livable, Active Communities and Environments initiative supporting the development of healthy, safe and active environments for all community residents. Arpiné holds a Master’s in Public Health and a Bachelor’s in Biology from the University of Southern California.

  • Lateesha is an Administrative Assistant at Community Partners with the California Accountable Communities for Health initiative (CACHI). She brings nearly ten years of experience as an administrative professional. Prior to joining Community Partners, LaTeesha wore multiple hats including executive administration, program and grants administration, and nonprofit capacity building. She worked with private foundations and public charities on equitable and collaborative initiatives in South LA, including the inception of the South LA Transit Empowerment Zone (SLATE-Z). Lateesha is an alumni of California State University, Los Angeles and holds a bachelor’s degree in social work.

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  • Lynea Diaz-Hagan is a strategic communications advisor with expertise in social impact and technology. Her commitment to health equity was catalyzed by two decades as a caregiver navigating the complexities of the healthcare system.

    Her prior roles include serving as a communications strategist for One Degree, a tech nonprofit connecting low-income communities to essential services, where she supported the launch of Stay Housed Bay Area and LA County's Mandated Supporter Initiative and developed case studies on resource access in California and New Mexico. She has also advised Kaliber Labs, a surgical intelligence company focused on patient outcomes, and several other AI/ML startups in Silicon Valley, developing fundraising narratives that secured major VC funding.

    Lynea holds degrees from Yale University (BA, English), UCLA (MFA, Screenwriting), and San Jose State University (MA, Music). She is a consulting instructor at the National University of Singapore's U.S.-based entrepreneurship program and a recipient of a Literary Artist Commission from the San Francisco Arts Commission for her play about Puerto Rican and Black communities struggling with disenfranchisement and the AIDS crisis during the Reagan era.

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  • Jeremy is a Project Director at JSI Research & Training Institute. He has over 18 years of experience developing a range of projects focused on health equity and social determinants of health; the intersection of public health, prevention and clinical care; and translating academic and practice literature into tools and resources for on-the-ground practitioners and policymakers. Jeremy has been involved with CACHI since it's inception and played many roles including sustainability and financing technical assistance provider, state policy advisor, and coach. Some of his other projects include a qualitative and quantitative assessment of managed care plan investment in SDOH, convening a statewide advisory group of community based organizations to assess and make recommendations at the outset of CalAIM, and the City of Berkeley community health assessment and improvement plan. Jeremy was a founding member of the Advisory Committee for the JSI California Office of Health Equity, is an Advisory Committee member of the Regional Asthma Management & Prevention Program, and is a member of the advisory group for State of Equity. He holds a Master’s in Public Health from UC Berkeley.

  • Jacqueline Franco-Silva was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, and raised in East San José, where she has dedicated herself to community organizing, healing-centered engagement, and resident leadership. She serves as Co-chair of the East San José PEACE Partnership, a collaboration of residents, public agencies, and community organizations working to build a healthy, resilient community grounded in local culture, placed-based leadership, and community driven solutions. Her work focuses on addressing the conditions that contribute to violence and trauma by uplifting community strengths, including pride, diversity, creativity, and a long tradition of activism and ensuring residents, including immigrant and historically excluded communities, help shape local priorities and solutions.

  • Roza Do (she/her) is a strategist, coach, and learning partner whose work bridges health systems transformation, community health, and cultural change. Through her independent practice, re:verb health, she helps organizations navigate complexity, strengthen partnerships, and build equitable, human-centered approaches by integrating design, systems thinking, emergent learning, and quality improvement. She brings 15 years of experience across the California safety net, including roles at the Center for Care Innovations, Prevention Institute, and HealthBegins, with a focus on clinic-community partnerships, frontline innovation, and embedding equity and prevention into policy and practice. A long-time creative practitioner and touring DJ, she also activates art and music as tools for youth voice and community storytelling. Roza holds dual master’s degrees in public health and city and regional planning from UC Berkeley and lives in Oakland with her family.

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  • Ignatius Bau is an independent health care policy consultant, working on issues of health care reform, health equity, language access, cultural competency, health workforce diversity, health information technology, immigrant and refugee health, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender health. His organizational clients include consumer organizations, health departments, health plans, hospitals and health systems, physician organizations, community health centers, health care interpreter associations, community-based organizations, and private health foundations in California, Oregon, Connecticut, and nationally. Mr. Bau has served on expert advisory panels on health equity issues for the Institute of Medicine, National Quality Forum, Joint Commission, Office of Minority Health, Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, California Department of Health Care Services, and California Health Interview Survey. He previously worked at The California Endowment, Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum, and Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area. Mr. Bau graduated from UC Berkeley with an undergraduate and law degree.

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  • Laura Hogan works with nonprofit and philanthropy organizations to improve the health and well-being of communities. Her skills and experience include strategy, planning and oversight of philanthropy initiatives, evaluation planning and policy development. Previous to consulting, Ms. Hogan held the position of vice president of program for The California Endowment. Her tenure with The Endowment (1999-2009) included oversight of grantmaking as well as developing philanthropy initiatives such as the Community Clinic Initiative, a ten year $120 million partnership between The California Endowment and Tides. Prior to 1999, Laura worked as Executive Director for CommuniCare Health Centers, a community health center providing 60,000 health, dental, vision and behavioral health visits and 35,000 health education and outreach visits through six locations. The staff included physicians, dentists, midwives, nurse practitioners, mental health therapists and 200 volunteers.