Having Our Say Members

• Asian Resources, Inc.
• Black Women for Wellness
• California Black Women’s Health Project
• California Immigrant Policy Center
• California Latinas for Reproductive Justice
• California Pan-Ethnic Health Network
• California Rural Legal Aid Foundation
• The Cambodian Family
• Center for the Pacific Asian Family
• Central Valley Immigrant Integration Collaborative
• Central Valley Urban Institute
• Centro Binacional para el Desarrollo Indígena Oaxaqueño
• Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles

• Korean Resource Center
• Latino Coalition for a Healthy California
• Little Manila Rising
• Madera Coalition for Community Justice
• Mi Familia Vota
• Mixteco/Indigena Community Organizing Project
• Multi-Ethnic Collaborative of Community Agencies
• PALS for Health
• Roots Community Health Center
• Services, Immigrant Rights, and Education Network
• South Asian Network
• Street Level Health Project
• United Women of East Africa
• Vista Community Clinic

Our inspiration:

“It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.”

― Assata Shakur

Policy Areas:

• Data disaggregation
• Cultural and linguistic health access (including Medi-Cal CHW benefit and Navigator funding for Medi-Cal, Medi-Cal Older Adults 50+ expansion regardless of immigration status and COFA citizens)
• Oral health access (including outreach, education, and alternative workforce)

My inspiration for social justice:

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”

-Alice Walker

California Pan-Ethnic Health Network

My Inspiration for social justice:

“Better to die on your feet than live on your knees”

– Emiliano Zapata

My inspiration and gratitude:

Having Our Say is my “happy place” – I love that community partners in this space genuinely want to share, strategize and grow together, and it’s unique and different from any other coalition space I have been in, because we are all experts of our own identities, cultures and issues, yet are constantly finding ways to collectively advance health equity.

Our inspiration:

“No voice is too soft when that voice speaks for others.”

– Janna Cachola

“Dr. King wants the same thing I want. Freedom.”

— Malcolm X

My inspiration for social justice:

“It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act.”

— Dalai Lama, Lhamo Thondup, 14th Dalai Lama, Tibet

Our inspiration for social justice:

“Know Hxstory, Know Self. No Hxstory, No Self”

– Dr. Jose P. Rizal