Sameena Mustafa
2023 - 2024 | Los Angeles County - Department of Public Health
SAMEENA MUSTAFA has spent years advocating for the marginalized as a trusted advisor to nonprofit and business leaders and a critically-acclaimed performer and broadcaster. Following her run for Congress, she launched Silver Lake Advisors, where she most recently led research on violence against AAPI women in politics with the Rutgers Center on American Women and Politics. Originally from Chicago, she graduated from Northwestern University where she studied Philosophy and Poetry.
Project
Widespread community hardship, endemic poor health outcomes, and other social determinants of health, such as housing and food insecurity, are strongly linked to financial harm caused by healthcare systems. In partnership with the Los Angeles County (LAC) Department of Public Health, the FUSE Executive Fellow will guide the development and direction of a consortium to understand the local environment of healthcare financial harms and collect information necessary to make effective, equitable interventions.