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Rebeca Rangel serves as Senior Director for Asset Funders Network (AFN). In this role, Rebeca leads efforts bringing together grantmakers, policymakers, and leading stakeholders to connect and discover best practices, invest in promising interventions, advocate for needed policy changes, support narrative change, and identify actionable roles for philanthropy to advance equitable wealth building and economic mobility nationwide and specifically in California and the Bay Area Region.

Prior to joining AFN, Rebeca served as a Senior Program Officer at the Y&H Soda Foundation where she initiated the economic justice strategic priority and served as a Bay Area AFN steering committee member. Previously, Rebeca was a Senior Vice President at Bank of the West where she directed the Bank’s philanthropic investments and corporate social responsibility initiatives. Rebeca also served as a Bank of the West Charitable Foundation Trustee, Secretary for the Bank’s Executive Management Committee, and Special Assistant to the Chairman. Additionally, Rebeca has experience as an intermediary grantmaker with the New Americans Campaign at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center.

Rebeca holds a BA in Urban Studies from Stanford University, a MPP from Harvard Kennedy School, and a JD from Northwestern School of Law. Her immigrant parents have been her greatest teachers. She currently resides in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area in California.

Becca Graves is the Executive Director of Perigee Fund, a national philanthropy focused on supporting the mental health and well-being of babies and caregivers and helping create the conditions for families to thrive. She is especially inspired by the opportunity to work alongside people who dedicate their time and talent to alleviating suffering, caring for families impacted by trauma, being a voice for babies and caregivers, and advocating for justice.

Larissa Estes, DrPH serves as an Implementation Strategist for The California Endowment. Leveraging her experience in the public and non-profit sectors, Dr. Estes leads a multi-million dollar portfolio addressing access to care challenges through a deliberate wrap-around approach to support grantee impact and success. She works to invest in creative models that bridges access to care gaps and centers communities healing, dignity, and agency.

Prior to joining the Endowment, Dr. Estes was appointed by Governor Gavin Newsom in 2023 to serve as the inaugural Executive Director of the California Racial Equity Commission established through Executive Order 16-22. While serving in the Newsom Administration, she led the Commission in traveling throughout the state to engage with communities, advocates, civil servants, and equity leaders which informed the development of the state’s first Racial Equity Framework in which she was the primary author.

She has over 20 years of experience in allied health, healthcare, and public health with a focus on community, equity, and justice. Throughout her career she has served as a key author of several publications on women’s health, accountable communities for health, medical high utilization, and mental health and wellbeing. She is interested in integrating evidence-informed efforts into policy, practice, funding strategies across sectors that fortify equity and impact community wellbeing.

Dr. Zea Malawa (she/her) is the founder and Executive Director of Expecting Justice and the Abundant Birth Project. She is a pediatrician and public health professional with an MD from UCLA and an MPH from UC Berkeley. She is committed to improving health outcomes for families of color. As former Perinatal Equity Medical Director at San Francisco Department of Public Health and First 5 Commission Chair, she successfully built sustainable systems of care to support Black breastfeeding and maternal mental health and co-led a coalition to successfully legislate Medi-Cal coverage of doula care in California. She is adept at integrating political advocacy and anti-racism strategies into her practice, leading her to conceive of the Abundant Birth Project.

Michaela Taylor (she/her) is an RN and MPH graduate from UC Berkeley with expertise in public health nursing and program development. Her clinical work includes supporting adolescents in foster care and the juvenile legal system, as well as maternal and reproductive health. With extensive experience in program management and implementation, she led the launch of the Abundant Birth Project’s San Francisco pilot and directed implementation of the statewide initiative. She is currently the Director of Operations & Initiatives with Expecting Justice.

Jenna Gaarde (she/her) is a public health advocate with deep experience in antiracist initiatives and public health program development. She received her B.A. in Psychology and MPH from UC Berkeley. Jenna has a background in reproductive justice and racial justice to advance public health, and a strong foundation in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of programs and policies that address the social determinants of health through her work in local government and nonprofits. She supports the programmatic implementation of the expansion, in addition to co-leading ABP’s policy sustainability efforts.

Dr. Yuan He (she/her) is a primary care pediatrician and researcher at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), and the Medical Officer of Children’s Health in the Division of Reproductive, Child, and Adolescent Health at the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, where she oversees Philly Joy Bank. She is passionate about bringing together diverse groups to advance child health equity by addressing poverty and racism. She is also a proud (and tired) mama of 3 littles!

Chyna Quarker (she/her) is a social impact leader with nearly a decade of experience designing and scaling innovative programs and systems at the intersection of economic justice, behavioral health, and community safety. As Director of Programs at the Georgia Resilience and Opportunity Fund, she leads a $30 million portfolio advancing economic security and wealth-building across Georgia, including In Her Hands, one of the largest direct cash initiatives in the South. Previously, she built and launched the nation’s first non-emergency, non-police community response program accessible through a city’s 311 system in Atlanta. Chyna holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Howard University and a Master of Science in Political Psychology from Arizona State University.

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