MEET OUR TEAM
Kia (she/her) leads HIP’s Capacity Building team and is responsible for advancing the vision and strategic direction of HIP’s capacity building work. Kia has a passion for public health, social justice, and health equity. She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology from UNC Chapel Hill and a Master of Public Health Degree with a concentration in Community Health Education from UNC Greensboro. Her specific interests are working to build the capacity of organizations to dismantle systemic structures and barriers that create health inequities so that everyone will have access to equitable programs and services, and feel empowered to make healthy and informed decisions.
Prior to joining HIP, Kia worked in the fields of adolescent sexual health and substance abuse prevention. Kia has over a decade of non-profit program management experience ranging from overseeing local and state-wide federally funded programs and initiatives, organizational capacity building, technical assistance provision to systems level programmatic integration.
As Research Program Director, Sukh conducts and elevates rigorous research to advance health equity, with a commitment to true community collaboration. Sukh is especially passionate about addressing racial and economic injustices impacting youth and families — she believes that research is a powerful mechanism to advance change.Sukh is native to the Bay Area. For fun, she enjoys progressing on her bucket list, baking desserts, photography, and traveling with her husband.
Raymond Neal is a Project Director at Human Impact Partners. As a native Wisconsinite, he takes great pride in the opportunity to support the development of healthy communities. Raymond has always sought opportunities to cultivate experiences and relationships, placing a premium on growth and development. Mindful, introspective and honest, Raymond has a personality that thrives in any industry focused on human development. He’s a listener, a thinker, a perpetual learner who isn’t afraid to have difficult conversations. He is passionately devoted toward creating a more just world and firmly believes that in order to do so, one must first engage in self-reflection to unlearn internalized messages which perpetuate injustices. He believes the exploration of our relationships with ourselves, others, and the systems we all create and maintain is key to the development of opportunities and spaces for individual behavior shifts and organizational transformation.
Christina (she/her) comes from the Environmental Health and Justice space, but has always been a Public Health person at heart. She spent many years coordinating broad-based coalitions in the climate justice and environmental health spaces to advance local and state-level public policy. She loves supporting her colleagues by providing sound HR and back-of-the-house support and is eager to operationalize diversity, equity, inclusion and racial justice through HR.
Christina has deep roots in Southern California, but has been at home in the SF Bay Area for many years now. She enjoys bicycling around town, music, food, art and the natural world. She has two young, clever and high-energy sons who claim that they can “taste the love” in her cooking.
Clara helps guide HIP’s communications and narrative strategy. She brings to HIP her experience in journalism and nonprofit advocacy, through which she’s worked to build community power at the intersection of racial, environmental, economic, and health justice. Clara is interested in how language and communication work as means of making our material realities and truths.
Born and raised in San Francisco, Clara considers herself deeply rooted in the Bay Area. She enjoys fiction, skating, and making jewelry and extravagant cakes.
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.
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.
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.
