Myriam Hernandez Jennings

Myriam Hernandez-Jennings started her work at Community Catalyst as an Advisor for the Center for Consumer and Community Engagement in Health Innovation. In this role, she developed strong partnerships, both with local and national health care providers, systems and businesses, to address the social, economic and political factors that impact the health of communities.

In her new role, as the Director, External Program Equity & Engagement, Myriam serves as a thought and action partner to the Senior Director, Equity & Engagement in developing and pursuing strategies to support organization-wide efforts to center race equity and health justice in Community Catalyst’s external programmatic work. To this role, Myriam brings more than two decades of experience working with organizations and coalitions to embed equity, inclusion and racial justice into their programmatic work to better engage and partner with those most impacted by oppressive systems.

Born in Chile, Myriam credits a cruel dictatorship with catalyzing her active and lifelong commitment to community organizing, power building, and social, political, economic and racial justice, starting at the age of 12. Myriam is profoundly moved and influenced by Liberation Theology and has more than 20 years of experience applying its theory in different sectors of the social justice ecosystem. This includes leading the Massachusetts Coalition of Domestic Workers, as the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Alliance on Teen Pregnancy, in her role as the Regional and National Director of several Women’s Health Projects at JSI Research & Training Institute in Boston, and being a board member of the feminist collective 0ur Bodies 0urselves where she edited the first Spanish edition of their best-selling guide to women’s health and well-being.