Erin Hogeboom is Director of the San Diego for Every Child Organization. She is passionate about community work because she believes in its core principles.

+BOX is a community-based nonprofit program that partners with local growers, food rescuers, and neighborhood schools to provide food insecure children and their families with boxes of fresh, healthy, nutrient rich foods on a weekly basis.

Bonnie joined the COI Community Council this year and represents the Julian and surrounding backcountry communities.

Margarita is the newly elected tri-chair for the Childhood Obesity Initiative (COI) Executive Leadership Team.

San Diego County Childhood Obesity Initiative’s (COI) Community Council Tri-Chairs. Rocina Lizarraga, Earl Felisme, and Tana Lepule

Sherman Heights Community Center (SHCC), established in 1984, serves about 20,000 residents from Sherman Heights, Grant Hill, Logan Heights, Barrio Logan, and other neighboring South Bay communities.

Nina Ghatan is a Manager at Community Health Improvement Partners, where she uses a collective impact model to provide backbone support to the San Diego County Childhood Obesity Initiative.

s the Partnership and Funding Manager of ACE’s Community Investment and Engagement initiative, she seeks to increase physical activity opportunities in communities across the nation.

Laura Niksch (formerly Laura Jeanes) is a Registered Dietitian currently working with the Head Start Program at Neighborhood House Associations their Nutrition Coordinator. Originally from Texas, Laura moved to California just over four years ago. She completed her undergraduate degree (BS in Dietetics) at the University of Maryland, College Park. Afterward, Laura completed a combined [...]

Tina Zenzola is the Obesity Prevention Programs Director and the Interim Unit Director for the Chronic Disease and Health Equity Unit in the Public Health Services Division of HHSA. In these roles, she oversees state and federal grant-funded programs that apply a health equity lens in reducing chronic disease and obesity through policy, systems, and environmental [...]