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Event Description

Southern California Grantmakers invites you to join us for an update on the current rising numbers of COVID-19 cases due to the Delta variant and unvaccinated populations. We will hear about the ongoing impact on the communities that many SCG members serve and ways to respond. This webinar is a unique opportunity to hear from health care experts about what to expect in the coming weeks and how philanthropy can support local efforts.

Speakers

Moderator

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Margarita Luna, MSW, MPH, CPC SCG Member

Interim Managing Director for South Region & Health Systems, The California Endowment

Margarita Luna joined The California Endowment in June 2007. She has served TCE in a variety of capacities; as a Program Associate in the Health Access Goal Team, Program Manager of the 10-year Building Healthy Communities Initiative in the Eastern Coachella Valley, and Senior Program Manager in the South Region leading Education Justice investments and the Inland Empire portfolio.

Recently, Margarita was promoted to Interim Managing Director for the South Region and Health Systems Teams. In the South Region, Margarita is tasked with overseeing TCE’s investments across the southernmost 5-county region in California, advancing health and racial justice across intersectional system areas achieved via power building toward policy/advocacy and systems change. She also manages a statewide Health Systems-focused grant portfolio dedicated to transforming health-related systems so that they are community centered and driven.

Margarita also served as Chair of the Inland Empire Funders Alliance, organizing funders and transforming philanthropy and its impact on local movement building through collective efforts to advance equity, advocacy and systemic change in the San Bernardino and Riverside county region.

Speakers

Dr. Barbara Ferrer

Barbara Ferrer

Director of Public Health, Los Angeles County

Dr. Barbara Ferrer is the nationally recognized Director of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, which prevents disease and promotes health equity and wellbeing among more than 10 million county residents. She oversees a department with a $2 billion budget and 4,600 staff, and currently guides the region’s COVID-19 pandemic response.

Dr. Ferrer has partnered with others for over 40 years to foster racial, social, and economic justice; she has been a public health leader, high school principal, philanthropic strategist, researcher, and community organizer.

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