Abraham is currently the Executive Director for Centro Hispano a non-profit organization focused on the immigrant and low-income population. Abraham earned a bachelor’s degree in Public Relations from Utah Valley University. He has experience in education and health promotion.

Linnea Fletcher received a bachelor’s degree in public health from BYU-Idaho and a Master of Public Health and Master of Public Administration from the University of Utah. She has worked in emergency preparedness and disaster recovery, environmental health, and health promotion including tobacco prevention, injury prevention and control and quality improvement. Currently, Linnea works for the Utah Department of of Health Promotion as the EPICC Program Manager. She is a Certified Health Education Specialist and is excited to be the President Elect for USOPHE.

Jesse Joseph works as a Health Program Coordinator for the Utah Department of Health’s Tobacco Prevention and Control Program. Jesse has a bachelor’s degree in Health Promotion from Utah State University and is a Certified Health Education Specialist.

Hannah received her bachelor’s degree in Health Promotion and Education from the University of Utah. She currently works as a Certified Health Education Specialist at the Salt Lake County Health Department with the Parents As Teachers program.

Mckelle Hamson is a Ph.D. student at Texas Woman’s University in the hybrid Health Studies program. She works as an adjunct professor and love teaching and talking about public health.

Julia Glade works for the Salt Lake County Health Department. She is an advocate for youth health. Julia has a bachelor’s degree in Health Promotion and Education from the University of Utah and is a Certified Health Education Specialist.

Lauren Radcliffe is the Alcohol Epidemiologist for the Utah Department of Health’s Violence and Injury Prevention Program. Her work focuses on looking at drinking rates across the state, and the intensity at which people are consuming alcohol. Lauren has collaborated with Parent’s Empowered, the Mayor’s Youth Coalition for Alcohol, Tobacco, & Drug Prevention, the Utah Asthma Task Force, Utah Youth Summit, and the Utah Environmental Public Health Tracking Program. Lauren always looks to find the relationship between causative behavior and what can be implemented to improve the health of our communities. Lauren has her Master’s of Public Health in Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences from San Diego State University.

Julie is currently the Health Educator for the Utah Birth Defect Network at the Utah Department of Health. Julie has a Master’s degree in Health Promotion and Education from the University of Utah, and is a Certified Health Education Specialist.

Kristi Strongo, CHES, graduated from UVU Public and Community Health in 2014. She is currently working as the training coordinator in the Utah SNAP-Ed (Food Sense) management team. In her current role, Kristi works to train local educators and supervisors and ensure program fidelity statewide. As a Health Educator at the Utah County Health Department, she was instrumental in updating wellness policies in Utah County as well as providing toolkits to these districts to help with implementation. She is passionate about all aspects of public health and actively looks for opportunities to help the field grow. She has served as a mentor in UVU Policy and Advocacy class and has been a guest speaker multiple times in professional development classes at UVU. Kristi received the USOPHE 2015 Rookie of the Year Award for her work in the Utah County as a Nutrition Education Assistant. She had the opportunity to coordinate the first USOPHE case study competition at the 2017 USOPHE Annual Conference. She has been a member of USOPHE since 2012.

Macey Bonfiazio is a Junior at Utah State University studying Health Education and Promotion and Minoring in Marketing.