BOARD of DIRECTORS

America Bracho

President and CEO

Commmittees Served:
Executive & Finance

Dr. America Bracho is the Executive Director of Latino Health Access, a center for health promotion and disease prevention located in Santa Ana, California. This Center was created under her leadership to assist with the multiple health needs of Latinos in Orange County. (Read more)

Rita Cruz Gallegos

Board Chair

Commmittees Served:
Executive & Governance

Rita Cruz Gallegos is founder and CEO of Genesis Consultants, LLC. The firm focuses its efforts in the health care field, including but not limited to international health, business administration and management, program development and implementation, strategic marketing, public relations, public affairs and grass-roots outreach. (Read more)

Edwin Rivera

Vice Chair

Commmittees Served:
Fund Development

Edwin Rivera is a Vice President of Community Engagement and Cal MediConnect for Heritage Provider Network. In this capacity Edwin is responsible for the Cal MediConnect Outreach program operations as well as all Latino Community Engagement Outreach Events. (Read More)

Catalina Santamaria

Board Member

Commmittees Served:
Fund Development

Catalina Santamaria is a native of Bogotá, Colombia. She works at the Disneyland® Resort as a Home Team Cast Concierge, where she assists with the on-boarding of all new lodging and food & beverage employees to the Disneyland®Resort Hotels. (Read more)

Olivia Maldonado

Board Secretary

Committees Served:
Executive Committee and Finance Committee

Dr. Dorothy Lane Siddall, M.D., FAACP

Board Member

Commmittees Served:
Governance

Dorothy Siddall was elected to the LHA Board of Directors in 2012. She retired in 2011 from Southern California Kaiser Permanente Medical Group in Orange County, where she was a Partner Physician in the Family Medicine Department and the Assistant Director of the Orange County Kaiser Family Medicine Residency Program for many years. (Read more)

Sr. Herlinda E. Ramirez M.

Commmittees Served:
Fund Development

Herlinda Ramirez-Machado, CSJ is a Sister of St. Joseph of Orange and Pastoral Assistant at St. Jude Neighborhood Clinic in Fullerton, CA. Sr. Herlinda is also involved with the Comprehensive Prenatal Service Program and the Every Woman counts Program/Cancer Detection Program at St. Jude’s Medical Center. (Read more)