“Our problems are too complex to pretend we can address them alone. This is why the Summit exists, to learn and support each other”
Co-hosted by Ser Familia and LCF Georgia
Summit Speakers
Roxana Chicas, PhD. RN
Principal Investigator
Roxana Chicas, PhD, RN is an Assistant Professor, Tenure Track, in the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing and a Bridges to the Baccalaureate scholar. She earned an ASN from Georgia Perimeter College in 2015, a BSN from Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing in 2016, and a PhD from Emory University Laney Graduate School in 2020. Dr. Chicas completed a one-year postdoctoral training in the Renal Division of the School of Medicine at Emory University.
Dr. Chicas’ research experience in occupational and environmental health, and nephrology, along with being a bilingual bicultural investigator equip her with a unique set of strengths and skills as a nurse scientist. Dr. Chicas conducted the first field-based intervention study of methods to reduce core body temperature using real-time biomonitoring equipment among farmworkers in the United States.
Dr. Chicas is a sought-after scientist with features in Bloomberg News, NPR, and The World. She has collaborated with the Center for American Progress and the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environment to advocate for climate change policy solutions. She is also an advocate for immigrants and workers’ rights. Dr. Chicas is a host on the Nurses Station webcast.
Natalie Hernandez PhD. M.P.H
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Dr. Hernandez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine and the Interim Director of the Center for Maternal Health Equity at Morehouse School of Medicine. Dr. Hernandez has a broad background in community-based participatory research (CBPR), women’s health inequities, health policy, and social determinants of health. She has more than 15 years of experience in developing community partnerships and implementing CBPR that engages with diverse stakeholder groups. Dr. Hernandez has served as the Principal Investigator (PI) or co-investigator on numerous university, foundational, and NIH-funded grants focused on women’s health inequities.
In 2019, she helped to establish the Morehouse School of Medicine’s Center for Maternal Health Equity and conducted interdisciplinary translational research aimed at advancing the understanding, prevention, and reduction of maternal mortality or morbidity among ethnoracial minority women and underserved populations. She is Co-PI on numerous projects examining the integration of technology in addressing maternal health inequities and improving reproductive and sexual health outcomes for ethnoracial minority women. Dr. Hernandez currently sits on Georgia’s Maternal Mortality Review Committee, Georgia PRAMS Steering Committee, and on various maternal and child health organizations including Postpartum Support International-Georgia Chapter Advocacy Group and Georgia Maternal Health Stakeholder Group. She also sits on national organizations including the American Public Health Association Committee on Health Equity, Health Disparities Taskforce of the National Preeclampsia Foundation, and many others. Dr. Hernandez has presented her work at various international, national, state, and local conferences.
Dr. Hernandez received her Master of Public Health from Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health and a Bachelor of Arts in anthropology from Stony Brook University in New York. She earned her PhD in public health as well as a graduate certificate in interdisciplinary women’s health from the University of South Florida.
Latino Summit, a Capacity Building and Peer-Learning Opportunity for Leaders in Georgia
The goal of the Annual Latino Summit and Forum is to create a safe space for discussion and action to create better conditions for community wellbeing.
We engage service providers, social workers, program coordinators, community & faith leaders, government executives and business owners and executives to discuss and bring to the forefront the interdependency between health and economic empowerment in the state and in the Southeast at large.
Thank you to our generous supporting organizations and sponsors, we have traditionally being able to host this robust programmatic event at low-cost for nonprofit professionals, government executives, students and faith and community leaders.
If you can not afford the fee that includes all educational opportunities and buffet luncheon, please email us.
For special accommodations, please let us know. we are an inclusive event
Belisa Urbina / Gigi Pedraza
CEO, Ser Familia / Executive Director, Latino Community Fund
2023 Summit Location & Venue
Atlanta Technical College (Dennard Conference Center)
Directions
Cleveland Dennard Conference Center @ Atlanta Technical College College.
1560 Metropolitan Parkway SW
Atlanta, GA 30310
Directions To the Main Campus:
Please Note: One-way driving and parking is enforced
Driving from the North: Take 75-85 South to the University Avenue exit. Make a right onto University Avenue. Travel 3/4 mile to Metropolitan Parkway. Make a left onto Metropolitan Parkway and travel 3/4 mile. The campus will be on the left, and you will enter at a traffic light. Once on campus, drive to the right.
Driving from the South: Take 85 North to the Cleveland Avenue exit. Make a right onto Cleveland Avenue. Turn left onto Metropolitan Parkway. Continue on Metropolitan until you reach the Atlanta Technical College campus. The campus will be on the right, and you will enter at a traffic light. Once on campus, drive to the right.
By MARTA: Take either the special Atlanta Tech bus (to the side door of our main building) from the West End MARTA Rail Station or the 95-Hapeville bus, which stops on Metropolitan Parkway outside the main gate
On map below, please go to “B” parking is in front of the Conference Center and is FREE
Parking
FREE on-site only if you park in front of the Cleveland L. Dennard Conference Center