HealthCare UnTold

Sunny Schwartz has dedicated almost forty years to Men and Women who are and were incarcerated. Her work in jails and prisons implementing Restorative Justice, Trauma Informed Services, educational opportunities, and transitional housing is part of her lifetime legacy of bringing Justice and Reform to our criminal justice systems. Hear about Sunny's new project: Five Keys Home Free. Org which supp...

Arnoldo Torres is a journalist, a public policy expert and the executive director for the California Hispanic Health Care Association. Arnold played a significant role in the debate surrounding the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986, which addressed civil rights protections, temporary workers and immigration legalization.   During this episode Arnold shares his background and the pa...

Dr. Gilberto Lopez is an Assistant Professor in the School of Transborder Studies at Arizona State University.  Gilberto has committed his research to identifying the social determinants and political frameworks needed to understand the health and wellbeing of (im)migrant, rural, and racialized minority populations. When Covid-19 hit, Gilberto wanted to respond to the differences in information th...

Good News Latinos and X at HealthCare UnTold would like to recognize the work of the State of New Mexico to support the goal of a living wage for farmworkers. Due to the farmworker labor shortage caused by Covid-19 in New Mexico, Governor Lujan announced a 5-million-dollar fund to form the Chile Labor Incentive Program (CLIP). The CLIP program is a wage supplement program for the chile industry to...

San Francisco food allergy activist Sonia Hunt has just released her first book, NUT JOB: How I Crushed My Food Allergies to Thrive . A first-generation Indian-American, Sonia healed a lifetime of severe food allergies by reclaiming her native foodways and exploring Ayurveda and functional medicine as alternative paths to healing. After hundreds of visits to the ER including four that nearly took...

Gloria Romero is a bilingual Latina who has served children, youth and families in the Mission District and San Francisco for over 30 years.  She has extensive experience designing, implementing, and managing comprehensive quality programs and services for children, youth, and families of diverse backgrounds.  Gloria has  committed her career to the strengthening of communities, advancing equity a...

On today's Covid-19 Update,  we discuss the impact of vaccines on the  highly  infectious Delta Variant. Vaccines have been effective in  reducing deaths, hospitalizations, and severe illness. Over 750,000 deaths in the United States, including the loss of  parents to thousands of children, have caused a tremendous amount of suffering that is not being recognized. We are also not certain about the...

Episode 81: Margaret Cariño-Condon & Theresa Cariño, Co-Founders of Salud y Cariño.   Bio’s & Contact Information Margaret has been a member of the Institute for Women Surfers since 2015 and is currently a part-time surf instructor with the Wahine Project, an organization that strives to reduce barriers and increase access to the ocean and surfing for all girls.  She is also a board member for the...

Pauline A. Guillermo is an author and the co-founder and former Executive Director (Emeritus) of The International Center for Disability Resources on the Internet (1998), one of the first internationally recognized virtual public policy centers dedicated to promoting opportunities for people with disabilities. Born and raised in San Francisco and educated in the Bay Area and New Jersey, she has wr...

Since the inception of the HealthCare Untold Podcast, I wanted to record an episode about Latinos' own version of the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake. When the earthquake hit, I was the Executive Director of Salud Para La Gente, a farmworker clinic in Watsonville, and what I experienced and witnessed first-hand during this ordeal was life changing.  These same feelings were sparked during the Covid-19...

In our first episode of Good News Latinos and X , Philadelphia Latino Organizations worked nights and weekends to ensure that their communities were provided information about and access to Covid-19 Vaccines. Their  door to door efforts, along with providing mobile vaccine clinics, paid off by their high vaccination rates. Our Co-host's Jasmine Najera and Gerardo Sandoval join our conversation and...

 Raquel Mariscal is from a farmworker family and at the age of five she was working in the cotton fields with her parents. Even at this early age, she knew that it wasn't right for children to be working in the fields. Rooted in this history, Raquel committed her career to social justice movements in health, criminal justice reform and youth justice. Raquel completed law school, became a public de...

Mercedes Márquez has been a housing practitioner and civil rights advocate for over 35 years. She has worked as a civil rights litigator, affordable housing developer, Housing Director and a Deputy Mayor of Los Angeles.   Mercedes worked as Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) Deputy General Counsel for Fair Housing and Civil Rights during the Clinton Administration and as President Obama's HUD A...

Erica Padilla-Chavez was born in Watsonville, CA and graduated from Watsonville High School. She attended the University of California, Berkeley where she received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology and Master of Public Administration from Golden Gate University in San Francisco. She is an alum of USC’s Behavioral Health Solutions Leadership Institute. Erica’s career has embodied a commitmen...

Born and raised in Watsonville, I bring more than 30 years of nonprofit experience to my work  as the executive director of the Community Action Board (CAB) of Santa Cruz County, Inc.  (CAB). I stand on the values of equity, humility, and service to lead the agency to expand  services, strengthen community engagement, become culturally reflective, and experience  significant fiscal growth.   As a...

Join us as we continue to talk with Mónica Morales, Deputy Director for the Center for Healthy Communities at the California Department of Public Health. This is our follow episode to Episode 71: Mentoring, Growing Our Own, where Monica dives into her experiences working for the Department of Public Health and how she navigates the system. In her current post, she oversees programs that address en...

Marcia Rincon-Gallardo has dedicated her lifetime career to social justice, and is presently the Executive Director of the Alianza for Youth Justice. The Alianza for Youth Justice is dedicated to supporting and  mentoring Latinx youth  to help transform our youth justice systems with long term solutions. Marcia works directly with  Latinx youth providing mentoring, policy, and data training. Worki...

The power of mentorship and investing in young people has always proven to be effective and leaders of color who invest in mentoring and supporting youth have stories to share, here is ours. Much gratitude to our OG Mentor - Barbara Ann Garcia for continuing to support, hold space and encourage us and so many more!

Recast Episode #69 - In Memoriam: Laura Segura, Executive Director of Monarch Services, Social Justice Warrior, Chicana Leader, Advocate, Community Hero, Athlete y La Mera Mera Chingona. With a heavy heart, we are recasting our August 2021 interview with Laura Segura who passed away last week after battling cancer.  Our hearts and prayers are with her daughters, family, Monarch Services & the Wats...

HealthCare UnTold announces new Podcasts and  Hosts/Co-hosts, Jasmine Najera LCSW , and Health Care UnTold's Producer, Gerado Sandoval . Jasmine Najera will be exploring the importance of leadership, particularly in  her hometown of Watsonville, California, a predominately Latin/X community. She will be highlighting Watsonville's incredible responses to Covid-19, and the support that leaders need...

 Dr. Werlin is a Medical Officer for the Indian Health Services, which is responsible for direct medical and public health services to members of federally-recognized Native American Tribes and Alaskan Native People. Dr. Camillo Werlin is a physician specializing in Family and Community Medicine working as a rural family doctor on the Zuni reservation in New Mexico.  Dr. Werlin shares his experien...

Dr. Magdalena  Avila's farmworker parents wanted  a better life and education for her and her siblings. Dr. Avila's parents dreams came true; all of their children were college-educated and held long careers in public service.  At the University of New Mexico, Dr. Avila taught her students to  work with  communities of color and to  develop sustainable strategies for effective  long term health in...

Vaccines have shown to be incredibly effective, and continue to be available for anyone  12 years of age and older.  With only half of California and the United States fully vaccinated, we need to continue to reassess how to reach the unvaccinated. Most recently, there have been efforts to increase outreach and to go door-to-door to provide vaccines. Our media efforts will also have to target spec...

Tom is a Veteran who received multiple blunt force traumas to his eyes during his boxing career at West Point. He never realized the impact of these traumatic brain injuries until many years later as his vision grew worse. He continued to pursue his career in the early tech industry and developed multiple diversity support systems and recruitment processes to bring more people of color into the fi...

Jacob Martinez recognized that Latino communities were locked out of the  economic opportunities and digital innovations that were shaping the globe just across the Santa Cruz Mountains in Silicon Valley. He wanted to give Latino youth from rural communities  opportunities to tap and develop their talents, perspectives, and passions to build their own thriving technology  centers, and to prepare t...