Dr. Seciah Aquino serves as Executive Director for the Latino Coalition for a Healthy California (LCHC) — the State’s leading policy organization advocating for health equity in the Latinx community. In her role, she is passionate to advance health justice for CA Latinxs through unity. Latinxs working hand in hand with fellow siblings from Black, Native, Asian, Pacific Islander, Middle Eastern, Indian, and other communities of color to advance a unified Health Equity Agenda. An agenda that seeks to advance sustainable systemic changes, through policy solutions that will address the acute and long-term repercussions of health inequities. She strongly believes we must, as a collective, own our power and harness our resiliency to achieve true justice.

Dr. Aquino is a proud immigrant from Guatemala. Through life experience she has been blessed to learn first-hand how to stand up for the oppressed, how to provide for the needy, and how to speak up for the rights of the destitute. Dr. Aquino began her journey in public health as a promotora and throughout her career, thereafter, has remained committed to creating a culture of health across the nation. For over 10 years, she has worked to advance health equity and social justice issues across non-profit, government, and academic sectors and at multiple levels including local, state, and national.

Dr. Aquino holds a Doctorate in Public Health (DrPH) from Harvard University and a Master of Science (MS) in Global Medicine from the University of Southern California.

Source: https://www.lchc.org/about-us/