Health Education in San Francisco

Alba Alvarado is a queer, first-generation Latina who is deeply passionate about the intersections between racial justice and public health. Alba’s passion stems from the health-related injustices she witnessed in her youth and her work aims to center QTBIPOC. Her drive to alleviate this injustice led her to earn her B.A. from Wellesley College where she majored in Women’s and Gender Studies with a concentration in intersectional feminist theory. At Wellesley, she was the chair of education for the Sexual Health Educators where she wrote an interesectional sex ed curriculum and trained a large team of sex educators. Alba has experience working in nonprofits, government entities, and schools. Her advocacy work has been published in the historic feminist publication Ms. Magazine, the Planned Parenthood Action Fund blog, Sex Etc., Vice, and Glamour. She was born and raised in the Bay Area where Huckleberry played an integral role in her access to adolescent health services and she is now honored to be serving San Francisco Youth as a Community Health Educator.

Julia Quon (關美欣) is a San Francisco local and DONA-trained doula. She is a graduate from UC San Diego with a degree in Global Health. Her background stems from Maternal Health, Birth Equity, and Infectious Disease research. She volunteers as a chest-feeding instructor in San Francisco Chinatown and is the founder of Save Cantonese at City College of San Francisco. She was formerly a volunteer health educator at the Women's Community Clinic and is a California state-licensed emergency medical technician.