Selma Aly (they/she) is a Project Director with the Bridging Partnerships and Strategies team, supporting public health agencies in advancing equitable policies, practices and procedures. Their experience is deeply rooted in local, statewide and national grassroots organizing efforts, which highlighted how systemic oppression, power imbalances and health outcomes are deeply intertwined. They were introduced to the public health field while engaging in prevention and narrative change efforts on the ground. Selma has worked with, trained, and supported many public health departments and government agencies to shift systems, eliminate barriers, and build mutually beneficial partnerships with power-building organizations in their localities. They believe that our greatest power lies at the intersection of grassroots organizing and public health. Selma is committed to radical re-connection of the mind, body, and soul and the collective work of strategic risk, critical discomfort, and transformative healing needed to see the world we envision come to fruition.

Selma has a B.S. in Community and Environmental Sociology and Public Policy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In their free time, you can probably find them hiking deep in the woods or watching Tiktok cat videos.

Sari leads the organizing and advocacy work at HIP and coordinates Public Health Awakened, a network of public health professionals organizing to support social justice movements and resist attacks on our communities. She is passionate about mobilizing people around the issues most important to them and bringing a social justice and equity lens into all spaces.

Sari grew up in the Bay Area and was raised on activism. When not at a protest or organizing meeting, she can be found swimming in cold bodies of water or escaping to the woods.

Renae (she/her) is the Health Instead of Punishment Project Director. She brings a heart-centered eagerness to build capacity within the public health sector to take action towards abolition, to listen to those harmed by oppressive carceral systems, and to facilitate more liberatory, access-centered spaces.

Renae is a public health-trained, social justice entrepreneur passionate about systems change at the root of health inequities. Through co-founding a healing justice collective, Renae collectively envisions the transition to a world where everyone has what they need to heal, and harms are repaired without policing and punishment. Her intention is to support holistic healing practices that intervene on the legacies of violence and oppression among BIPOC folks, people with disabilities, and those with intersecting identities.

Renae lives on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone lands (San Francisco Peninsula) and finds joy frolicking in nature with her partner and kiddo, being an Iyengar-yogi student, deepening her own healing, eating and cooking good food, and shooting hoops.

Jessi Corcoran provides training and technical assistance and develops resources to support the centering of health equity. Her roots in sexual violence prevention and activism give her a unique perspective and passion for fully integrating public health and social justice movements. She is particularly interested in living and supporting the White anti-racist journey.

Jessi lives on Ho-Chunk land in Madison, Wisconsin with her partner and two sons. In her free time, if she isn’t wrestling her oldest child or snuggling her youngest, she is probably watching reality TV or working on her first novel.

Julian leads HIP’s Bridging Program, which builds partnerships and supports inside-outside strategies between public health agencies and community power-building organizations. Julian was first introduced to public health through climate and environmental justice movement work around diesel air pollution and toxic sites. He then worked for nearly a decade in governmental public health on asthma, air quality, and housing, and had a health equity leadership role in Rhode Island’s COVID response. Julian draws on his experiences of navigating the power dynamics between health department and social movement spaces to help people advance effective inside-outside strategies for health equity and building community power.

Julian grew up in the Finger Lakes region of New York and lives in Providence Rhode Island, where he is rooted in community and family with his partner and two kids. He loves gardening, long bike rides, exploring fractal landscapes, and relaxing on the beach with the fam.

Will leads HIP’s Housing Justice Program. He has spent the last 15 years fighting for a world where we all have a roof over our heads, the resources we need to thrive, and the right to determine our own futures. He believes that mass-based, feminist, anti-racist movements get the goods, and has spent his career moving our government institutions into alignment with these movements—with San Mateo and Contra Costa County health departments and BARHII (the coalition of public health departments in the Bay Area). Will’s work has bridged health, housing, land-use, transportation and climate change. He has also served as a trainer and organizational development consultant with governmental and social justice organizations around the country. His research and writing has been published in Progressive Planning and The Informal American City and awarded by the Council of University Transportation Centers.

Outside of work, Will organizes for racial and gender justice, raises a toddler who is convinced she is a feral bobcat, and explores the natural spaces of the Bay Area.

Asamia (she/her) is a first-generation Gambian-American who was born and raised in The Bronx. She is the former NYC Organizer with the Alliance for Quality Education where she worked on campaigns rooted in educational and racial justice in NYC public schools. Before AQE, Asamia organized with BYP100 where she was the former co-chair of the NYC chapter and spent the last three years working with her fellow Black organizers on issues that impact Black people in NYC. She is also a freelance writer and workshop facilitator. Asamia is a Black feminist, abolitionist, and anti-capitalist.  Most importantly, she is a Capricorn, a big sister, and an avid meme connoisseur.

Asamia has a B.A in African & African-American studies and Political Science from Lehman College. In her free time, she tends to spend most of her days rewatching episodes of The Office and reading Black fiction novels.

Victoria (she/her) is a  Senior Program Associate with HIP’s Capacity Building Team. As a current master in public health candidate, Victoria is excited to contribute her experience with health equity research and local public policy to HIP, while learning more about systems change to strengthen her skills as a public health advocate. Her work is motivated by the desire to create equitable outcomes for underserved communities.

Victoria grew up in Fairfield, CA and currently lives in Long Beach, CA as she completes her master’s program. Whether she’s going to art galleries, trying a new hairstyle, or even cooking a dish from a different culture, Victoria loves to express herself creatively and find beauty in everyday life.

Lili co-directs HIP with Solange, and is responsible for advancing the mission and strategic direction of the organization. For nearly 20 years, she has visioned, developed, and implemented policy and systems change to advance health equity in the government and nonprofit sectors, and she’s feeling energized by people’s willingness to talk about race, power and the other root drivers of health. These days, Lili spends a lot of time thinking about and developing novel approaches to activate public health around social justice issues and getting the field more aligned with community organizers and advocates.

Originally from New York, Lili now lives in Oakland and is kept on her toes by her two little kids and an unhealthy obsession with good TV and the Golden State Warriors.