Health Education in San Francisco

Jasmine holds a degree in Women and Gender Studies with a concentration in Medical Ethics from Wellesley College as well as a Master of Public Health concentrated in Community Health Sciences and Maternal and Child Health from Boston University School of Public Health. She’s created and updated sexual and reproductive health and social justice curricula geared towards fostering positive youth development, agency, and resiliency in both California and Massachusetts. Jasmine has held youth-focused Community Health Educator and patient-centered Reproductive Health Counselor positions with Berkeley’s Public Health Division, Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, Boston Medical Center, and Cambridge Health Alliance. Most recently, she innovated distribution programs to address education and access inequities at Cambridge Health Alliance while overseeing Case Investigators in all functions of Massachusetts’s Covid-19 Community Tracing response with Partners in Health. She hopes to engage and empower youth to become champions for their bodies, futures, and communities. As a So Cal native, Jasmine can often be found exploring the Bay when it’s safe to do so again.

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.