Consejeros / Becarios 2007

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Patricia Baker

Patricia Baker is working on the Dregan Project (BCBSM-CLUES-Clear Way) as Project Coordinator and Health Education & Committee Member. Patricia has also worked as a Health Promoter on tobacco secession and second hand smoke with the Ramsey/Dakota Tobacco Coalition and with Association for Nonsmokers - MN’s Promotores de Salud initiative.

Annastacia Belladonna, J.D., M.A.M.

Belladonna & Associates' founder & President, Annastacia is a seasoned professional with a legal focus on cultural competencies, diversity management and legal compliance. Her legal workshops/training, seminars and coaching stems from the perspective of a seasoned human/civil rights advocate with a focus on community asset building and assessment. Ms. Belladonna's human rights career has involved working as a litigator, Assistant to the Director for the City of Saint Paul Department of Human Rights, as the Area Director for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Minneapolis Office and most recently as a consultant to the City of Minneapolis Civil Rights Office. Ms. Belladonna has dedicated her 15 year legal career to developing and nurturing hands-on working relationships with key members of Minnesota's diverse communities of color throughout the State. It was the issue of parity and adequate access to public health resources along with race and cultural barriers that motivated Ms. Belladonna to become a LAAMPP (Leadership and Advocacy Institute to Advance Minnesota's Parity for Priority Populations Fellowship Program) Fellow.

Ms. Belladonna is currently the Project Coordinator for the Institute on Latino Affairs. Her Masters in Management is focused within areas of organizational development and diversity management. Unique to her approach is her focus on leveraging cultural, linguistic and other differences in a manner that contributes to a community’s asset capacity. She effectively taps into these differences and leverage them in a manner that; optimizes civic understanding and facilitates community mobilization that is outcome driven.

Gloria Contreras

Gloria M. Contreras is the Coordinator of Promotores de Salud (the Health Promoters Project). Ms. Contreras came to Minnesota as a migrant agricultural worker and was a lay health educator in the University of Minnesota’s Minnesota Migrant Health Promoter Program (MMHPP) in Dodge County for two years. The following year she coordinated MMHPP’s training and supervision of the Health Promoters in three counties. Since 1997, Ms. Contreras has established permanent residence in Owatonna and has maintained firm in her commitment to the rural migrant and Latino/a communities. Mrs.Contreras became the director of MMHPP, now Promotores de Salud, under the direction of the University of Minnesota in 1997, and eventually transferred the program to Centro Campesino, Inc.

Efren Maldonado

Efren Maldonado currently works for the Dakota County Public Health Department as a Community Health Specialist. Efren works to implement community-based primary prevention strategies in the following areas: Tobacco use prevention: assessment, policy and program planning, implementation and evaluation, and provide consultation and assistance to individuals and groups in local communities. Efren has also participated in the following leadership trainings:

• Leadership and Advocacy Institute to Advance Minnesota's Parity for Priority Populations Fellowship Program – Fellow Participant.

The LAAMP Fellowship was created to build capacity in the African, African American, Asian American/Pacific Islander, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT), Chicano/Latino and Native American communities to develop and implement effective tobacco prevention and control programs and policies.

• Latino Council Against Alcohol and Tobacco Fellowship Program 2003 Washington D.C. – Fellow Participant.

The purpose of the LCAT Fellows Program is to create a trained cadre of Hispanic/Latino prevention and control advocates capable of increasing public awareness and changing public policies in communities throughout the United States.

Federico Rivera

Federico Rivera is a Promotor de Salud at Centro Campesino in Owatonna. The Health Promoters program is a health promotion and leadership development effort that was developed to train community leaders on health related topics to assure that our community takes responsibility of its health. The program has now grown since 2002-03 to include the communities of Owatonna, Waseca, Montgomery and Grass Camp.

Each agricultural season, migrant communities select leaders to be Health Promoters that will function as an informational resource and bridge between health institutions and the migrant and Latino/a community. As a health promoter, Federico actively engages Latino communities on a door-to-door prevention outreach effort in Owatonna, Austin, Albert Lea, Faribault and Waseca to name a few. Federico also conducts grassroots community trainings on the various issues affecting our Latino rural communities in commercial tobacco use, second hand smoke and general public health matters.