Senior Vice President, Chief Social Integration & Health Equity Strategist
What is your personal WHY? How does your work in the Social Impact and
Community Investment Practice at RWJBH motivate you to obtain your WHY?
I wake up every day understanding that I am my parent’s daughter
and my daughter’s mother—with this comes awesome responsibility
to carry on a legacy and create a better, more equitable world that affords
ALL individuals, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual
preference, socioeconomic status, age, or ability, with the opportunity
to realize their goals. While this can be done person by person, I believe
we can make the most impact and create sustainable change when we tackle
and re-engineer systems.
My work at RWJBarnabas Health is the summation of my life’s work,
to date. Having worked across sectors, tackling diverse issue areas, the
impact RWJBH seeks to deliver allows me to flex every muscle to truly
innovate and address each of the social determinants of health while overcoming
the barriers to access for the patients we serve; creating efficiencies
for our clinicians; using data, technology and strategic systems change;
and collaborating with diverse partners across sectors to improve health,
social, and economic outcomes.
I cannot go a day without…
Daryl and Darynn—my husband and my daughter!
Talking to my parents and my sister
COLD BREW COFFEE!
If I could give a 10 second speech to the entire United States, my message
would be…
Being an agent of change is hard; even when it is right. It means not always
following the crowd, but being the one that charts the course. Change
takes courage, strength, and a lot of sweat equity. A new path could mean
new inventions, new discoveries, new opportunities… or it could
simply mean the difference in being able to look yourself in the mirror
every day or having to avert your eyes.