Margaret is joining the HEAL team as a Program Associate for the Southwest Leadership Cohort. She began work in public health with the Peace Corps in Dagui, Guinea where she partnered on childhood nutrition and farming projects. She then worked as a health systems coordinator on the Rosebud Nation with AmeriCorps where she helped design a curriculum for medical providers on settler colonialism as a structural determinant of health and worked on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy programming. She earned a degree in Global Studies at Pacific Lutheran University and completed two and a half years of medical school at Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine who has supported a leave of absence for this role with HEAL. She is thrilled to join the community based in Gallup, New Mexico and continue to learn how to advance health equity in resource-denied communities.