Partner Spotlights

Alondra Estrada-Lam, MPH and Community Health Promotion Specialist, works at the County of San Diego in Public Health Services in the Maternal, Child, and Family Health Services Department.

Mireya Mateo Gomez: Program Manager, Office of Binational Border Health at California Department of Public Health

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 [...]

Tina Zenzola is the Obesity Prevention Programs Director and the Interim Unit Director for the Chronic Disease and Health Equity Unit [...]

Natalie Digate Muth, MD, MPH, RDN, FAAP is a dual board-certified pediatrician and obesity medicine physician and registered dietitian. She [...]

Kim McDougal is a third generation Alaska native and admits that when her family first moved to San Diego when [...]

Dan Bennett is a Communications Director at UC San Diego Center for Community Health and a San Diego native who [...]

Paige Metz received her BS in Physical Education from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.  After graduation, she spent 10 years [...]

Keturah (or Ketty) Swenson completed the Didactic Program in Dietetics at San Diego State University, earning a degree in Food [...]

With a background in education and planning, Cheri was always passionate about supporting children and improving their lives. She began [...]

Most COI partners know Stephanie Gioia-Beckman as Supervisor Ron Roberts' Senior Policy Advisor and a longtime supporter of the COI, [...]

From a young age, Katie Judd lived an active lifestyle. She was born and raised in Bonita, and recalls walking [...]

Classrooms are versatile spaces. In small desks flanked by bulletin boards, students build academic knowledge, make friends, and develop a [...]