Cassandra Solis

Cassandra Solis is the Associate Director of Equity Tools & Programming. She leads the client/partner data analysis and facilitation of Beloved Community’s equity measurement tools. Cassandra has a background in labor organizing, workforce development, and social justice facilitation. In her most recent role, she led and implemented a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) program at Planned Parenthood of Illinois. She created and implemented a three-year DEI strategic plan that included DEI education and a climate and belonging assessment while juxtaposing that data against patient experience to further health equity. Cassandra came to Beloved because as a Chicana, native to the South Side of Chicago, she wanted to continue to bridge her lived experiences of inequity to critical race theory. This passion blossomed as she both developed and graduated from the inaugural Critical Ethnic Studies program coupled with a double major in English from Kalamazoo College. She currently resides on the South Side of Chicago with her partner and two cats.