Prior to moving to Sonoma County he was Director of Business Support Services and Director of Engagement and Public Relations for a large community based organization in Bakersfield, CA.

In his current capacity Oscar oversees the County’s Upstream Investments Initiative; a policy framework designed to strengthen our community’s ability to implement evidence informed practices and shift funding towards prevention. He is also responsible for the Department’s planning, research and evaluation functions as well as community and client engagement.

Oscar serves on the board of the Community Foundation, Sonoma County; member of the California Stewardship Network, a statewide effort to promote regional economies and civic entrepreneurship; steering committee member for Rise Together, a nine-county Bay Area initiative to cut poverty in half by 2020. He is the past co-chair of the Sonoma County Health Action Council and Sonoma County Innovation Action Council; former trustee, Windsor Unified School District and former commissioner of First 5 Sonoma County.

In 2008 he was chosen as one of the North Bay’s “40 under 40” leaders by the North Bay Business Journal; the recipient of the 2012 Sonoma County Jefferson Award and the 2012 North Bay Business Journal non-profit leadership award. In 2016 his was recognized as a HipGiver by Hispanics in Philanthropy. Oscar lives in Windsor with his wife Christine and their four boys (Cooper, Fischer, Greyson and Harrison)

She has over 25 years of professional experience specializing in program management, experiential education, youth development, grassroots organizing, and community engagement serving diverse populations in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. Ms. Facendini is passionate about working alongside the community to develop strategies to build resiliency and overcome disparities.

She has a bachelor’s degree from U.C. Berkeley, a master’s degree in Environmental & Social Justice from Sonoma State University, and an Urban Environmental Education certificate from Cornell University. Bethany is a fellow of the Sonoma County Leadership Institute for Ecology and Economy and a graduate of the Sonoma County Local Leaders Academy.

In addition to her volunteering on the LSP Board of Directors, Martha has contributed to fundraising for several local organizations, including LSP, The Living Room, ArtStart, Face-to-Face, and the Sonoma County Museum. Martha has worked at Better Homes and Gardens Wine Country Group Real Estate since 2014.

As a realtor, Martha pledges a portion of each sales commission to local nonprofits. Prior to selling homes, she spent for more than 20 years as an organization development consultant and worked in public health policy on the local, state and national level, ending her nonprofit career as the executive director of the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable. Martha earned a master’s degree in human resources and organization development from the University of San Francisco and was an adjunct instructor for several years in the management degree program at Saint Mary’s College of California. She is a past Commissioner on the Sonoma County Commission on the Status of Women and was the chairperson of the Sonoma County Hepatitis C Task Force.

Growing up on a remote farm in Puerto Rico, where survival was dependent upon community collaboration, shaped my desire to have a career in public service. The current social, economic and political climate has galvanized my need to be part of the solution.

Growing up on the south side of Santa Rosa, Luigi experienced his family involved in the gang life. This fueled his drive for the career choices he has made. Luigi wanted to commit his career to helping people. As a therapist in the community, Luigi works with ages 8-75 years of age. From all walks of life; regardless of gender, social class or story… Luigi desires to help bridge people’s pain/trauma to their behavior. A proponent of the mantra, “Awareness creates choice which creates power,” Luigi hopes to bring to light the things we wish to change through our maladaptive behaviors.

Luigi is currently the SOS Community Counseling Justice Director responsible for county contracts with Amarosa continuing education school, Mobile Support Team, and two diversion programs (Sonoma County Sheriffs Department and Healdbsurg Police Department. Luigi brings his clinical perspective to the Latino service providers. Hoping to continue to de-stigmatize mental health throughout the LatinX community. “I just want to begin the discussion of incorporating all possibilities of healing.”

As a people operations professional, Bianca is proud to work at Recology where she ensures employees have the tools, support and workplace culture that enables them to successfully lead the resource recovery industry to a greener future. Bianca enjoys spending time with her family, friends and pets. She has a passion for travel and has been fortunate to live in Mexico and Italy. She’s a member of Impact100’s network of Sonoma County women who share a passion for social justice and philanthropy. Bianca has been an AmeriCorps community service leader and is active in many non-profits, including Latino Service Providers, Sonoma State University Alumni Association and Make-A-Wish Foundation.

After several years of a career in food marketing and social media in Sonoma County, Aura moved to St. Louis, MO for two years to get her Master of Social Work degree with a concentration in social and economic development and a specialization in policy. She has spent the last three years organizing and working to advance the labor rights of Latinx and immigrant communities using a racial equity framework.

My interest in community outreach has been a passion of mine since my first days in the Educational Opportunity Program as a freshman. I have done digital marketing work that advances equity in housing policy and increases participation in housing policy decisions. More recently, I have been working on engaging projects investigating various issues related to the higher education experience of Latinx students. I am looking forward to getting my Masters in Public Policy and Community Organizing.

She also became involved in peer education programs like LSP. Her dream was to pursue higher education in a helping profession. Kembly was accepted to Sonoma State University and decided to pursue a degree in Sociology due to her strong interest in understanding human behavior and the relationship between people and their communities. After receiving her B.A. in Sociology, she went to work for a local non-profit serving at risk adolescents. This work inspired her to pursue her Master Degree in Social Work to gain more education on promoting the well-being of individuals and communities.

I then pursued my Masters at Sonoma State University and received a Masters in Counseling with a PPSC credential. I have been working since 2010 for Seneca Family of Agencies, a non-profit that works with youth and families in the community that are involved in a system, either Family Youth and Children’s Services, Probation, or Behavioral Health. Seneca provides behavioral skill building and coaching, assessment, therapy, psychiatry and case management services to address the mental health needs of youth and families.

As Director of Healthy Communities and then of Community Benefit at St. Joseph Health Sonoma County for 13 years, Dory oversaw community organizing, collaboration and other Healthy Communities programs; as well as the organization’s Community Benefit planning and reporting. Dory’s innovative integration of community organizing and collaboration into hospital Community Benefit work led to her participation in national work groups convened by the CDC, Dept. of Health & Human Services, and the Obama Administration’s White House Office on Neighborhood and Faith-Based Partnerships. Prior to joining St. Joseph’s, Dory worked for 11 years in El Salvador in the areas of community mental health, community-based rehabilitation, community organizing, and coalition building.

Her experience excludes training community health workers, or promotorxs de salud; as well as working with promotorxs and their supervising institutions on how to understand and address the risk and protective factors for secondary stress and traumatization that are experienced at community, institutional and personal levels. Dory founded Coaction Institute to help build capacity of community leaders and institutions such as community-based organizations, hospitals, public health agencies, other community stakeholders seeking to increase and enhance their capacities in collaboration, strategic planning and program evaluation, and authentic community engagement. Currently, Dr. Escobar also coordinates the Applied Practice Experience component of the University of San Francisco’s Master of Public Health program, in which she teaches Public Health Program Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation; Cultural Awareness and Humility for Health; Leadership; Collaboration and Community Organizing; and Applied Practice Experience Preparation and Seminars.

She graduated from Seattle Pacific University in Seattle, WA with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications in 2016, while also competing on the volleyball and track & field teams. After graduating, she returned to her home town of Santa Rosa, CA and immediately began her involvement in the volleyball community of Sonoma County.

I have lived in Sonoma County since I moved at 13 years-old to the U.S. in 2009. I attended Rancho Cotate High School, where I was part of the college-bound program, Upward Bound. I am also a first-generation college and graduate student where I earned my B.A. in Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Currently, I am a second-year graduate student at the University of San Francisco pursuing my M.A. in Counseling Psychology while also working at the YWCA of Sonoma County as Intake Coordinator in the Therapy Program.

In 2015, she relocated to Sonoma County to work at Santa Rosa Junior College (SRJC) as an Outreach Coordinator; she later transitioned into her current role as a bilingual counselor for the Extended Opportunity Program and Services (EOPS) at SRJC. Yesenia’s professional experience and background have significantly focused on promoting educational equity and access for all students. She has extensive experience advocating for historically underserved students, such as foster youth, probation youth, and parenting youth. Collaborating with LSP on the Youth Promotores project is an opportunity to continue empowering young Latinx individuals to improve self-advocacy, de-stigmatize mental health and develop professional growth opportunities.