Advisory Board

Jennifer Baird, PhD, MPH, MSW, RN, CPN
Jennifer is Director of the Institute for Nursing and Interprofessional Research at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Dr. Baird is a pediatric nurse scientist whose clinical background is in the pediatric intensive care unit, where she worked with children from birth to late adolescence and families from a wide variety of backgrounds. Prior to becoming a nurse, Dr. Baird trained as a clinical social worker with an emphasis on early intervention, early childhood special education, and support of families with young children. Her passion is in improving systems of care to promote family engagement, with a particular focus on communication among healthcare providers and families. Dr. Baird holds a PhD in nursing from the University of California, San Francisco, and an MPH in Clinical Effectiveness from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Susan Barela, Esq.
Susan serves as an attorney for a civil law firm in New Mexico. Susan began her legal profession as an Assistant District Attorney. After serving in the private sector in commercial litigation firms, she returned to state government working for the Office of the Attorney General as an Assistant Attorney General prior to her current position in the private sector.

While in law school Susan served on the New Mexico Natural Resources Journal and Vice-President of the Student Bar Association. As a 3L, Ms. Barela was recognized by the Mexican American Law Student Association at the 2013 Fighting for Justice Banquet with the Outstanding 3L Award for her significant contribution to the law school and legal community.

Susan is proud to have served with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers where she was awarded with the Army Commendation Medal and Army Service Ribbon. Susan makes her home in Albuquerque, NM with husband, Marcos, their two children, and their Weimaraner, Gunnar.

Shelley Brown, MPH
Shelley is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Boston University, and her research focuses on the key linkages between health, human development and human rights, especially women’s mental health during the perinatal period. She is currently involved in a number of research projects in the United States and South Africa. Shelley’s research is deeply interdisciplinary and engages the larger themes of health equity, global health, health systems and women’s health, utilizing both health systems information and qualitative research to inform proposed changes in policy and clinical practice. Research projects include implementation and promotion of perinatal mental health policies in practice, health system responses to intimate partner violence in South Africa; translation of evidence-based policy into practice in low and middle income countries; unmet mental health and social service needs of formerly incarcerated women living with HIV in the Deep South; and the legal obligation in South African to provide human-rights based mental health services in the perinatal period. She teaches courses in Global Mental Health; Global Health Governance and Non-Communicable Diseases.

Rosanna Durruthy
Head of Global Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at LinkedIn.
Rosanna is considered a thought leader, strategist and business influencer. Her orientation toward diversity and inclusion enables solutions that drive talent engagement, business growth, customer satisfaction, thriving partnerships and empowered communities. 

As the leader of Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at LinkedIn, Rosanna is leading a team who focused on creating economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. 

Rosanna has held several leadership roles prior to joining LinkedIn, including serving as CEO of AEQUUS Group, Rosanna led an organizational consulting practice designed to empower adaptive emerging leaders. Through executive coaching and personal network analysis, I coached women and people of color to achieve new thresholds of leadership and successful career progression within “Fortune 150” companies. Operating from a different philosophy on talent and leadership, Rosanna's practices have been cited in several publications, including the books Chasing Stars: The Myth of Talent and the Portability of Performance by Boris Groysberg, Princeton University Press (2010), and Latinos in College (2010) and Poder de Mujer (2012), along with the English translated Find Your Inner Red Shoes (2012) by Mariela Dabbah.

Nakeya T. Fields, LCSW, PPSE, Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor, Trauma Informed Yoga Therapist
Nakeya is a mental health entrepreneur, author, and speaker. She is an alumna of the University of Southern California where she received a BA in Communication, a Master's in Social Work and a Pupil Personnel Services Credential in School Social Work and Child Welfare & Attendance. Nakeya is also a Registered Play Therapist - Supervisor and a certified field instructor and clinical supervisor. Nakeya is a 200 HR TT Yoga instructor, certificated in trauma informed restorative yoga and is certified in Mini Yogis Yoga for Kids yoga. She is licensed by the Board of Behavioral Sciences as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the State of California. She is also a Community Based Doula/Perinatal Support Specialist that addresses transitional difficulties that come up for new and expecting mothers/families and has launched the MOMMY MATTERS initiative through her organizations that incorporates a mental health professional, resource/case manager and doula throughout pregnancy and postpartum.

She is the owner of Fields Family Counseling Services, which specializes in mental health services that serve the complete family unit. Nakeya is also the Founder, President and Chair of the Board for The Therapeutic Play Foundation, a nonprofit that seeks to build a healthier, more resilient world for those in disadvantaged communities through empowerment, education and play, starting with the Mother. She is also the Director of The Feel Well Empowerment Center which offers wellness resources such as community workshops (chakra healing, acupuncture, parenting, restorative yoga), books, candles, and aromatherapy.

Further, Nakeya acts as a program development and staffing consultant to develop progressive health and wellness programs that incorporate creative modalities within educational, corporate and community driven organizations. She also provides in-service seminars and is available for book signings, expert panels, speaking engagements, and consultation.

Maureen Fura
Maureen has spent the last 10 years building key relationships with policymakers, advocates, leaders, survivors, scientists, researchers, providers, and families to close the gaps in Maternal Mental Health care. She is the Co-Founder of MomsWell, a mobile-web based screening and referral technology that leverages technology to close the biggest gaps in maternal mental health care. Since its release in 2015, her award-winning documentary film ‘Dark Side of the Full Moon’ has been used as a catalyst for change. Maureen was also one of the founding members of the National Coalition for Maternal Mental Health (NCMMH) -a project of 2020 Mom. Maureen was awarded their Advocate of the Year in 2017 for her efforts in bringing advocates to Washington D.C from around the country to lobby for policy changes. Through NCMMH, the Moving Out of the Shadows Act and its subsequent funding was realized.Maureen also spearheaded the first national social media awareness campaign for Maternal Mental Health (MMH Week), which takes place the first week of May every year. She led MMH Week for 4 years, reaching over 10 million. She also worked on first World MMH Day with leaders from the UK, Spain, Turkey, South Africa, France, and Canada.She continues to be a Postpartum Support International Coordinator in Miami, Florida where she works to connect local moms to support sources.

Jonathan Goldfinger, MD, MPH, FAAP
Jonathan is a pediatrician and the Chief Medical Officer and VP, Innovation for the Center for Youth Wellness(CYW). Known for transforming pediatric primary care for underserved families, his work includes leading integrated, trauma-informed care models and novel health and wellness innovations and technologies to scale and sustainability.

Dr. Goldfinger’s teams have jumpstarted successful collaborations across many entrenched healthcare and community silos by combining cultural humility and research with clinical innovation, big data, technology, and strategic partnerships. Prior to CYW, Jon served as ZERO TO THREE’s Chief Medical Officer and before that, National Director of HealthySteps(HS). The new HS National Office under Dr. Goldfinger grew HS from 74 practices in 13 states to over 120 practices in 20 states, Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico; began serving our nation’s military families at Department of Defense facilities; developed a successful business case for value-based payment from diverse (Medicaid, commercial, and health system) payers; and secured over $50 million in public and private funding, all in under 2 years.

Dr. Goldfinger’s other notable healthcare innovations include Los Angeles’ only Breastfeeding Medicine Center where women and children receive integrated lactation support, maternal depression screening, and pediatrics primary care regardless of income, and the world’s most comprehensive, free breastfeeding support app, latchME.

Noah Hampton-Asmus
Noah works as a behavioral health legislative policy analyst and advocates for the intended goals of California’s Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) to prioritize client and family stakeholders to drive community services. His mother was a labor and delivery nurse and inspired his desire to advise 2020 Mom to support their maternal mental health advocacy efforts in California. He often says, “We’re all trying to do good work, so let’s do it together.” Mr. Hampton-Asmus is continuing his education at California State University, Sacramento in the Master’s program of Public Policy and Administration (MPPA) and will graduate in 2021. With his MPPA degree, Mr. Hampton-Asmus intends to further health policy that promotes physical activity, social connectedness, and economic vitality for all community members to enhance blue zone culture in California.

Patrick Hendry
Vice President of Peer Advocacy, Supports, and Services.
Patrick has worked as a mental health advocate for the past twenty-four years. His areas of expertise include peer provided services, self-directed care, recovery based trainings, organizational development, and management and sustainability. Patrick received MHA's highest honor, the Clifford W. Beers Award in 2012, and a SAMHSA Voice Award and Eli Lilly Reintegration Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014. He is the former Executive Director of the Florida Peer Network and has assisted in the development of numerous peer-run programs and organizations. Patrick is a strong supporter of the inclusion of mental health consumers in all aspects of the behavioral health system.

Raul Martinez, Esq
Raul is a Southern California native who serves as a contract patent attorney.  Raul lost his wife Kelly Abraham Martinez to postpartum psychosis in 2010, just 3 months after the birth of their daughter.  He brings the perspective of loss, the hispanic culture, and both an appreciation of out-of-the-box ideas and the need to focus on what will make an impact to the Influencers advisory board.

Kay Matthews
Kay Matthews is a Successful Business Woman, Motivator, Advocate and Mental Health & Wellness Advisor. Kay Matthews lives in Houston Texas and is the Founder of BabyCakes & Brunch and Shades of Blue Project which was started after delivering her daughter stillborn and experiencing maternal mental health issues. She has been a local community advocate in Houston for over 20 years and her organization BabyCakes & Brunch has been recognized by the Mayor and was given their own day in the City. As a very active community advocate Kay feels that helping others to reach their own goals is the best benefit of helping those she encounters. Kay is now actively teaching and speaking to women of all ages to help them better understand how important it is to help themselves before during and after childbirth. Helping them to realize that they are able to continue to live their dreams and still make life great against all odds. To Kay this is the most important aspect of the work she does with in the communities and it's the motivation that she uses to continue to educate communities worldwide.

Monica Mo
Monica Mo is the founder and CEO of WellSeek, an online community platform on a mission to dispel myths and spread truth in the health and wellness world. What began as a passion for health and science led to Monica’s realization that her own behaviors contradicted her knowledge, inspiring the conception of WellSeek as a way to guide others towards discovering their own path to health and happiness. She's the Curating Editor of the WellSeek Collective and the founder of SeekHer Foundation, a non-profit project supporting a woman's rise and resilience in her mental health journey.

Monica was recognized by San Diego Magazine as a Rising Star finalist & Woman of the Year nominee for 2019’s Celebrating Women Awards, and has been featured as a media guest and contributor, including NBC, CBS, ABC, Thrive Global, ESPN Radio, and BuzzFeed. She began her career in biotechnology, specializing in genome-based metabolic engineering and data analytics, and was a member of the academic teams that pioneered the "Google map of human metabolism" that was featured in TIME, CNET and CNN. As a scientist at Intrexon, she led early-stage R&D initiatives focused on metabolic systems engineering, cancer therapeutic design, and biologics production. Monica holds her Ph.D. and M.S. in Bioengineering and B.S. in Bioengineering: Biotechnology from the top-ranking, nationally-recognized program at the University of California, San Diego. Making her home in San Diego, she’s at her happiest when she’s surrounded by her husband and two kids, coffee with great company, and roasted veggies.

Wilna Paulemon
Wilna Paulemon is a Master of Public Health candidate at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health studying Health Policy and Management with a certificate in Epidemiology of Chronic Disease (Class of 2020). She is passionate about improving population health through community level initiatives and collaborative efforts. She has experience working in community health centers, not-for-profit organizations, and for-profit companies. Wilna aspires to use her knowledge on the US healthcare system to promote more private-public partnerships to solve issues like preventable maternal mortality and the increasing burden of chronic diseases.

Wilna enjoys being involved in her community. While in undergrad she was an after school tutor, a mentor, and served on the board of a non-profit that’s seeks to empower girls in the Boston area through after-school activities, leadership workshops, and mentorship. She is currently on the e-board of Columbia Women Leaders and serves as a Programming Associate for Columbia’s Office of Religious Life.

Clare Schexnyder
Clare Schexnyder is the founder, CEO and co-owner of Oh Baby! Fitness. The company, founded in 2005, offers the widest variety of pregnancy and mom & baby exercise classes in the USA. They also offer the world's leading pre/postnatal fitness instructor training. Oh Baby! Fitness has trained thousands of instructors in 44 states and 15 countries. Clare was a producer at CNN for 17 years before she came to the fitness industry. She is the proud parent of a teenager and lives in Atlanta with her family. She is certified by AFAA and SCW Fitness in group fitness and is the co-author of Oh Baby! Fitness' own pre/postnatal instructor training.

Shireen Thor
Shireen Thor has had a successful career spanning nearly 15 years as a medical device design engineer and product marketer and Big 3 business consultant solving incentive compensation problems for big brands.  After running $25M plus product P&Ls and working with large companies like Accenture, Össur and CareFusion, Shireen wanted to do more, and have more independence in her professional endeavors.  She is currently the CEO and Co-Founder of Maria Shireen® a functional fashion accessories company headquartered in San Diego, CA. Though the company only launched in 2015, they already have distribution in over 45 countries. Her flagship patent protected product has been featured in over 100 fashion and beauty print, online publications, and national broadcast. Since July 2016, Shireen has been awarded 5 utility patents, 8 design patents, 10 trademark registrations and won the Red Herring North America Top 100 and was a Retail Innovation finalist. Shireen combines a positive and thoughtful leadership style to what is becoming a major brand in functional fashion and wants to redefine versatile accessories for every occasion and design solutions for everyday life that complement an individual’s personal style and interest. The brand also has a dedicated celebrity following which includes Gabby Douglas, Candace Cameron, Lauren Makk, Chrissy Teigen, Brandy and many others. In addition, Maria Shireen is actively involved in a number of social good initiatives through its CHARITY TIES™ program which supports non-profits like Bright Pink and the National Coalition for Maternal Mental Health (NCMMH).

Shireen grew up in Southern California where she was a competitive cheerleader and even made a cameo in the cheerleading blockbuster Bring It On. A diehard Wolverine, Shireen graduated the University of Michigan where she majored in Industrial and Operations Engineering with a Mathematics minor. Shireen makes her home in San Diego, California with husband Arni and their son, Tristan Alexander.

Brooke E. Tomblin, MPH
Director, Health Equity/Social Determinants of Health and Clinical Performance and Quality at Cigna. Brooke manages Cigna's collaborative strategy to improve the health of our under-represented and under-resourced customers and communities. Her responsibilities include raising awareness, leveraging data science to identify health disparities, and developing leadership and organizational capacity to close gaps in health care and health outcomes. Examples of projects she has led include: an initiative to reduce the gender disparity in cardiovascular disease management; interventions to eliminate disparities in breast and colorectal cancer screening for African-Americans and Hispanics; and the inclusion of a health equity metric in our value-based reimbursement contracts for hospitals. She has recently expanded her role to include leading an enterprise wide strategy to address social determinants of health as a means for driving more equitable care in local communities.

Prior to Cigna, Brooke worked for several commercial health plans that administer Medicaid and Medicare in the area of health education and cultural and linguistic services. She has extensive experience in research, quality management, program design and evaluation.

Ms. Tomblin received her Master in Public Health degree from Boston University, Boston, MA. She lives in Southern California.

Amanda Yeaton-Massey, MD, FACOG
Amanda Yeaton-Massey is a Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialist with a passion for perinatal mental health. After her own experience with perinatal depression, Dr. Yeaton-Massey redirected her academic and clinical focus to increasing awareness and improving diagnosis and treatment of mental health disorders in perinatal period. Dr. Yeaton-Massey received her MD at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), then went on to complete a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology followed by a fellowship in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Stanford University. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Maternal-Fetal Medicine in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences at UCSF and Medical Director of Perinatal Mental Health.

Kim Walls, MS
Kim is a serial entrepreneur with over 20 years experience as a founder of socially conscious businesses that advocate for women, health, and the environment. She focuses on birth as a pathway to empower and educate families, and has served on several nonprofit boards. Currently, she is founder and chief collaborator of Best Ever Baby. Kim's work has been featured in publications including WWD, Real Simple, Fit Pregnancy, Huffington Post, and on-air by the CBS Early Show and Good Morning America.