Help us welcome Yubelly Perez to the CCPH team! She is joining our team as the CEACR Operations Manager.
Please help us welcome our newest member to the team, Yubelly Perez! Yubelly joins our team as a the CEACR Operations Manager. If you have the opportunity to work with Yubelly, you’ll learn that she has a passion for community partnerships and health equity.
Yubelly’s extensive experience in community outreach and program management woven with her approach to fostering trust through authentic relationship building will prove invaluable to the CCPH team.
Her prior experience includes working with organizations such as St. David’s Foundation and Southwest Key Programs. Yubelly earned her Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from Universidad Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario in Colombia and earned her Master of Science in Organizational Leadership from St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas.
How did you hear about CCPH?
When I first learned about CCPH, I was managing a partnership between a mobile dental program and over 100 Title I Elementary schools in Central Texas. During the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, I was actively looking for reliable sources of information to understand equitable access to COVID-19 testing and the vaccine rollout process. My research led me to CCPH, their online resources, toolkits, and webinars, provided me with the knowledge I needed to share with colleagues, school staff, and parents in the communities I worked with, deepening my understanding and enhancing my work during this critical time. Later, I continued receiving CCPH’s online newsletters and learning about its collaborative projects with academic institutions, and health equity initiatives.
Why did you decide to join the CCPH team?
I joined the CCPH team because it aligns with my deep passion for fostering community partnerships, advancing health equity, and social justice. The new CEACR Operations Manager role offers the ideal opportunity to apply my experience and background in program management, operations, organizational leadership and partnership development toward the projects CCPH is currently leading. This was an opportunity to make a tangible difference while growing professionally, working with a great group of people, and making an impact beyond the community where I live and work.
What has inspired you to do that work?
Early in my professional career, I learned about the power of people working together, and I saw firsthand how engaged collaboration can transform communities. It became clear that real, sustainable change begins through relationship-building and fostering trust with those with whom you want to connect and learn.
Every individual I’ve worked with has been a source of inspiration. Their expertise has been invaluable, and since then my commitment has been to make meaningful and impactful connections. While working with communities, I like to follow one of the teachings from Lao Tzu:
“Go to the People
Live with them
Learn from them,
Love them.
Start with what they know,
Build with what they have.
. . . But with the best leaders
When the work is done
the task is accomplished
The people will say,
We have done this ourselves.”
Tell us about the work you’ll be doing and the program you’ll be supporting in CCPH.
I’ll be working as CEACR (Community Engagement Alliance Consultative Resource) Operations Manager providing daily operations support and project management. CEACR is a partnership between CCPH and the University of Pittsburgh Clinical and Translational Science Institute. I’ll mainly be supporting the Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER), an initiative focused on Long COVID. CCPH along with the University of Pittsburgh has planned a series of events to bring together investigators, patients, caregivers, and other stakeholders to share ideas about how to disseminate information about Long COVID.
What are you most excited about in your role at CCPH?
I am looking forward to collaborating with new community partners, academic institutions, and my colleagues. The knowledge, insights, and impact of CCPH’s projects at the regional and national level is something I am excited to be a part of. I am passionate about learning and discovering new ways to bring together diverse groups of individuals and stakeholders. I want to listen to their experiences and learn from them, always approaching each experience with an equity and social justice lens.
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