Sandra Caraveo is the National Programs Manager for the LULAC Institute Inc. and works on coordinating various projects that educate and empower the community. She has used her extensive experience with mobilizing and training grassroots networks to carry out LULAC’s program implementation. Currently, she is overseeing all of LULAC’s major service initiatives in education, health, empowerment, youth leadership development, financial empowerment, employment, and technology. Her seasoned experience working with local LULAC councils and partners will be a key asset to LULAC’s Program Initiatives.

Erin leads two established nationwide programs, NCOA’s Benefits Enrollment Centers and Senior SNAP Enrollment Initiative, focused on increasing enrollment of low-income older adults and adults with disabilities into benefits programs that help them pay for prescription drugs, medical care, food, or home energy/utilities. These two programs are aimed at significantly increasing participation in Medicaid, Medicare Savings Programs (MSP), Extra Help (Part D Low Income Subsidy/LIS), Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) through community-based outreach and enrollment initiatives. Erin provides training to a nationwide network of social service providers on eligibility and application guidelines for these key benefits programs.

Erin also provides recommendations on proposed federal legislation and regulations, particularly on how changes will impact the most vulnerable people. Erin graduated with honors from the College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, earned her Juris Doctor at the University of South Carolina School of Law, Columbia, SC, and her Master’s in Environmental Law and Policy at Vermont Law School, South Royalton, VT.

Vivian leads the National Council on Aging’s ecosystem of national and community partnerships, external engagement of NCOA’s policy priorities, and programs focused on vulnerable populations of older adults. For over a decade, Nava-Schellinger has used equity as a baseline principle of her work - whether working on large scale reimbursement programs in the private sector, securing funding for health literacy programs and driving Affordable Care Act (ACA) outreach in vulnerable communities, or advocating for greater health and economic security across the lifespan for underrepresented populations. Vivian enjoys spending time with her husband and three pups Fernando, Phil-Chepito and Nacho.

Ceci Henriquez serves as Director of Media & Strategic Engagement at Share Our Strength, the organization behind the No Kid Hungry campaign. In this role, Ceci leads integrated communications initiatives to raise awareness about childhood hunger in America and reach communities of color, which have been disproportionately impacted by hunger through culturally-relevant resources and communications strategies.

She is currently chair of the board of directors of CASA de Maryland, the largest member-based Latino and immigrant organization in the mid-Atlantic region with presence in Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia. Ceci holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the American University in Washington, DC. She is a graduate of the Executive Certificate Program in Transformational Leadership at Georgetown University and earned a post-graduate specialization in regional development from the Interdisciplinary Center of Development Studies at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia.

A native of El Salvador, Ceci currently resides with her husband in Washington, DC.

Rose has been working on senior hunger programs at Feeding America since 2017. Her passion is to work towards ensuring food security for all, with special attention to our most vulnerable populations. She holds a master’s degree in gastronomy with a concentration in food policy from Boston University, and received her bachelor’s degree from Santa Clara University.