Email: Gracer_at_prevention_institute_dot_org

Grace Guerrero Ramirez (she/ella) is a Program Manager from Puerto Rico based in Oakland. She convenes community leaders, governmental staff, and other partners to cultivate partnerships, develop resources, and put public health strategies and community-powered narratives in action.

For two years, Grace has led SYNC Safety, an initiative that convenes over 20 Black, Latine, and Indigenous-led community-based organizations (CBOs) across the U.S. to support their leadership implementing violence prevention strategies. Grace has coordinated workshops on topics such as workforce healing and wellbeing, funding and sustainability, and narrative change and storytelling. Similarly, she supports a violence prevention collaborative comprised of public health staff and CBOs in Santa Clara County to strengthen their collective power to influence systemic change in the County. In partnership with Ideastream Public Media, Grace also led the development of the Living for We: Keep Ya’ Head Up Toolkit to support community understanding and dialogue about gun violence.

Prior to joining Prevention Institute, Grace worked at Mathematica where she provided equity-focused technical assistance to state and federal health and social services agencies, and community organizations. Her research focused on the critical role of family, friend, and neighbors who provide childcare, how home visiting programs promote economic wellbeing, and practices that clinics carry out to provide equitable and person-centered sexual and reproductive health services.

Grace holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Puerto Rico and a master’s in public health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

In her spare time, Grace enjoys dancing salsa, singing, and playing the accordion.