­­­Elena Rivera, MPH

Elena Rivera is a bilingual public health advocate and public health consultant who is bridging policy-level impact and frontline care. She has 15 years of participatory evaluation and systems change work — and is newly a birth doula to support women and families through the perinatal journey. Elena works from the inside out, interrogating what sustainability, dignity, care, and whole person health means in her own community, and she carries those reflections into her emerging practice as a birth doula and long-standing leadership work as a cross-sector public health consultant and policy advocate. She holds a Master of Public Health degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Bachelor of Arts degree in Human Biology at Stanford University.