Cynthia has a background in statistics, Latinx health, epidemiological trends on immigrant health, data analysis and visualization, equity and belonging strategy development, facilitation, theories of change and logic modeling, community-based participatory research, and advocacy for racialized and targeted individuals. She brings expertise in health equity, program planning and implementation, and coalition building.

At Equal Measure, Cynthia works on evaluations for United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey’s new Center for Leadership Equity, the City of Philadelphia’s Anti-Violence Community Partnership Grants, the Aspen Institute’s Criminal Justice Reform Initiative, and the Kresge Foundation’s Boosting Opportunities for Social and Economic Mobility for Families (BOOST) initiative. She also serves as a core member of the learning and evaluation team for MaineGeneral’s Peter Alfond Prevention and Healthy Living Center as well as the project management team for the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Youth Research Advisory Project. She is a co-facilitator of the Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) Affinity Group.

Before Equal Measure, Cynthia was a program development assistant at Juntos, an immigrant rights nonprofit, where she designed a mental health diversion program to improve Latinx and undocumented Latinx health outcomes. She also served as a clinical research coordinator at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, facilitating the recruitment of agencies working with historically marginalized groups using trauma-informed praxis. In addition, Cynthia was a program coordinator for the Office of Multicultural Affairs at Johns Hopkins University. While at Johns Hopkins, she was part of the core team that led the university’s anti-racist undergraduate student development and training initiative. Cynthia has a passion for practicing love, care, and transparency within the research and evaluation fields and strategizing people- and community-led initiatives to address systems harm—ultimately to create a more liberated and livable world.

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