Personal Stories

As a creative, Jennifer Wilkins has made a career of collaging opportunity, interests, and passions. Earning her bachelor’s degree in fine art, she quickly headed creative production teams to apply creative problem-solving skills and curiosity to program start-up and development. She was the founding administrator of the Pediatric Surgery Residency [...]

While foundational concepts like critical thinking and analysis are taught in schools, it isn’t so common to find classrooms that are dedicated to experiential learning. From a young age, Alina Taniuchi was not only taught to learn by doing, but she was encouraged to think through the interconnected nature of [...]

While Change Consultant and Administrative Assistant Ciara Collins only joined Change Matrix (CM) a few months ago, she has quickly adapted to CM’s company culture, jumped into multiple projects like Expanding the Bench® (ETB) and The National Network to Eliminate Disparities in Behavioral Health (NNED), and become an essential part [...]

After seven years working alongside Change Matrix (CM) helping the Expanding the Bench® (ETB) Initiative, Project Manager Karla Mendez moved on to pursue another position. We are sad to see her go, but we wish her all the best in her new endeavors! Read this blog, originally posted to the [...]

Change Consultant London Losey has been working with Change Matrix (CM) since 2017, and in that time has held many roles. Notably, she is the co-lead for the Programmatic Workstream and a Region IX TA Specialist for the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood HomeVisiting TA Resource Center (MIECHV TARC); provides leadership [...]

With a background in K-20 education, consultation, and organizational development, Scott van Loo has made a career out of equity work. Initially earning a bachelor’s degree in music, Scott’s passion for helping people led him to become a special education teacher and eventually an assistant elementary school principal. He later [...]