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Board of Directors
If you want to reach a board member or are interested in joining our board, contact Esperanza Macias, the Executive Director at 415-274-1970 x16 or macias@hify.org.
President
Jessica Fields is an assistant professor of Sociology and Human Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State. She is also a Research Associate at SFSU's Institute of Sexuality, Social Inequality, and Health. Jessica is a native Northeasterner who lived happily in the U.S. South for eleven years, eventually earning her MA and PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on the consequences of abstinence-only sexuality education for students of color, low-income students, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer students. At SFSU, Jessica is an active mentor to graduate and undergraduate students and teaches courses on sexuality, gender, social inequality, and adolescence. She's also taught college courses to young adults in women's and men's prisons and collaborated with other women in grassroots lesbian health education. Jessica has received numerous fellowships and awards in recognition of her research, teaching, and community service.
Secretary
Jeff Spiegel is the Director of Internal Communications at Old Navy. Before joining Old Navy, he worked at Blue Shield of California and Target Corporation in several communications and community relations positions. Jeff graduated from the University of Minnesota with a bachelor's degree in history.
Treasurer
Dara Coan is Health Educator at the San Francisco Department of Public Health, HIV Prevention Section, where she works with the HIV Prevention Planning Council and coordinates HIV prevention evaluation activities citywide. She believes strongly in the notion that everyone deserves to be healthy, and thus deserves equal access to health information and services. Although her area of expertise is HIV prevention, she has also been involved in prevention projects in areas such as sexual assault, domestic violence, asthma, tobacco, and lead poisoning. Dara is an east coast transplant from Philadelphia. In her first California adventure, she spent four years studying on the beach at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she received her B.A. in Sociology in 1994. Three years later, she found herself back on the west coast, this time at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she received her Masters in Public Health in Community Health Sciences in 1999. After graduating, she settled in San Francisco and became a permanent Californian.
Phyllida Burlingame
PB Consulting
Annie Chen
DonorDigital
Eric C. Lewis (On Leave)
Teacher, Mission High School
Usha Ranji currently works as a Policy Analyst with the Women's Health Policy Division of the Kaiser Family Foundation. At the Foundation, Usha focuses on issues related to health coverage and access, particularly for low-income women, as well as how women fare under the Medicaid and welfare programs. Prior to working at the Foundation, Usha spent three years at a Chicago advocacy organization, examining health care under the 1996 welfare reform, including work opposing abstinence-only programs in schools. In Chicago, Usha was on the board of the Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health. She received a Masters degree in Health Policy from the School of Public Health at Harvard University.
Jen Reck, Ph.D.
San Francisco State University
Linda Tran
Harder + Company
Stephanie Witt
ETR Associates
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