Em Burke serves as the Executive & HR Assistant at the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers since May 2021, while also functioning as a Lab Instructor for foundational chemistry courses at Rhode Island College since August 2016. Previous roles include Contact Tracing Coordinator at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where Em oversaw a team of contact tracers during the COVID-19 pandemic, and Science Teacher at Bristol County Agricultural High School, implementing lessons across multiple science disciplines. Em has a strong background in advocacy and negotiation as demonstrated through service as Contract Negotiator and Secretary for the Segreganset Teachers Association. Educational qualifications include a Master in the Art of Teaching from Brown University and dual Bachelor of Science degrees in Biology from Brown University and Williams College. Additional experience includes tutoring, research assistance, and various administrative roles.
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Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers
The Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers (League) is a non-profit, statewide association representing and serving the needs of the state's 52 community health center organizations, which serve more than 1,000,000 state residents through over 300 sites. The League serves as an information source on community-based health care to policymakers, opinion leaders and the media and provides a wide range of technical assistance to its members and communities, including: analysis of state and federal health regulatory and policy issues affecting health centers; training and education for health center administrators, clinicians and board members; promotion and management of clinical quality initiatives across the health center network; workforce development programs to increase recruitment of primary care physicians and to provide career training for health center employees and local residents seeking entry-level positions at health centers; information technology development primarily focused on helping health centers upgrade their information technology systems and capacity for using data; and general support to expand health access through work with local health and advocacy organizations seeking to open health centers in their communities.