Staff
Sari Bilick
Organizing Program Director sari@healthinpartnership.org
Sari leads organizing and advocacy work at Health in Partnership and co-coordinates Public Health Awakened. She has a background in community, labor, and political organizing and has worked on a wide variety of campaigns and social justice issues. She lives in the Bay Area on unceded Lisjan Ohlone land and spends as much of her time as possible swimming in cold bodies of water, hiking in the redwoods, and at protests with family.
Sophia (Sophie) Simon-Ortiz, MPH
Organizing Project Director sophia@healthinpartnership.org
Sophie works on organizing and advocacy at Health in Partership and co-coordinates Public Health Awakened. With a background in radio production and popular education, Sophie is passionate about the power of self-determined community storytelling as central to health and loves building the organizing power of the public health field because health, joy, and justice are inextricable. Sophie was raised and lives on occupied Ohlone lands in the Bay Area, and finds joy in dancing, hiking, cuddling with her dog Daryl, and catching up with chosen and biological family far and wide.
Steering Committee
Omid Bagheri Garakani, MPH
Coast Salish land (Seattle, WA)
Omid is a public health practitioner and educator who works locally and nationally with organizations and collectives to advance health justice. He lives in Seattle and believes in rest as a form of resistance, so he spends his time with people and activities that bring joy, naps, and rejuvenation to him and the communities he's a part of.
Jannah Bierens, MPH, MA
Lansing, MI
As founder of PHREEEDOM LLC, Jannah leads with love through consulting, coaching, and facilitating dialogue around root causes of oppression, shifting power, and reclaiming narratives for self and systems transformation. When they are not working collectively in community to get PHREEE, Jannah gifts herself with meditation, reading, music and all things creative that bring rest, joy, and pleasure.
Joy Eckert, MPH
Washington, DC
Joy is a public health practitioner living and working in Washington, DC. In her current professional capacity, she works on federal policy related to medical product research and regulation. In her volunteer capacity, she contributes to organizing efforts at the local, national, and international level on topics such as access to health care, housing, and other aspects of social justice. In her own time, she enjoys hanging out with her husband, daughter, and cat, as well as reading, playing board games, and walking in Rock Creek Park.
Xie Rachel Kulikoff, MPH
Ann Arbor, MI
Rachel is a PhD student in health policy at the University of Michigan. She studies how data influences policy and is passionate about leveraging data in the fight for social justice. Rachel's hobbies include working on three perpetually unfinished crochet afghan projects, trying new recipes, and sending lots of snail mail.
Danielle L. Lucero, MSW, MPH
Tiwa Territory (Albuquerque, NM)
Danielle (Pueblo of Isleta/Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa) is a Program Manager for Research and Training at The Praxis Project and learned from her relatives in Isleta Pueblo the importance of collective care and collaboration for community and environmental health. Outside of work, Danielle enjoys riding in her dad's truck to feed the cows, visiting her grandparents, and attending dance classes.
Juliana Morris, MD, EdM
Massachusett and Wampanoag lands (Boston, MA)
Juliana is a community-based primary care doctor active in local organizing for racial and immigrant justice. She enjoys building community, learning languages, dancing, and exploring the natural world in her neighborhood.
My-Linh Nguyen Luong, PhD, MSPH
Denver, CO
My-Linh works as a behavioral scientist, public health researcher and community activist, passionate about applying research in service of improving the social good for all people and communities. She loves tending to her backyard garden, enjoying outdoor adventures, playing board games, and bringing people together to create meaningful and memorable experiences.
Kathy Reyes, MPH
San Jose, CA
Kathy is a cultural strategist and status quo antagonist working to transform systems so that wellbeing can be more possible for everyone. She enjoys spending time with her 8 year old son who just adopted a pet hamster named Nibbler.