Join community health advocates & policy leaders for a Latinx Health Policy Summit: ‘Regeneración’

It gives us great pleasure to invite you to this year’s , and announce this years theme – REGENERACIÓN. Our summit will take place, in-person, October 13th, at The California Endowment in Sacramento. The summit will be followed by LCHC’s 30th Year Double Quinceñera Reception.

Our summit will bring together community program partners, leaders in Latinx public health, elected officials, and legislative staff to discuss and collaborate on a 2024 Latinx Health Equity Policy Agenda.

About our theme: 

REGENERACIÓN or regeneration is the natural process of renewal and restoration after a disturbance or damaging event. This year, we’ll join hundreds of statewide and local public health leaders, community members, government, and philanthropy partners in exploring policy solutions that will heal and restore our communities after a devastating global pandemic.This event reaches over 20,000+ stakeholders annually, in person and online.

Annie Gonzalez is a producer, activist, and performer, who works to support immigration rights, educational equity, and the arts. She is a Chicana Artivista who uses multiple cultural and creative platforms to build mutual empowerment, class consciousness, autonomy and dignity.

Annie is a sixth-generation Los Angeles native and has been acting, dancing and singing, on stage and screen since the age of 10. She spent much of her career performing a version of Mexican-American that was legible for the few roles that were available. The scope of Latinx stories has widened and the word is beginning to spread. Gonzalez has landed roles in popular television series such as Netflix’s Gentefied, Showtime’s Shameless, FX’s American Horror Story, Amazon’s Good Girls, and Starz’s Vida. She also can be seen in East of the Mountains, alongside Mira Sorvino and Tom Skerritt and on the big screen in the highly-viewed Hulu Original Film, Eva Longoria-directed feature film, Flamin’ Hot, from Searchlight Pictures and Franklin Entertainment. Gonzalez plays a lead role as Judy Montañez, wife to Richard Montañez.

Her next endeavor is serving as Executive Producer for Vix+ Jenni Rivera biopic titled “Jenni”. Gonzalez currently resides in Los Angeles, CA.

This year’s 2023 Latinx Health Policy Summit will serve as an opportunity to celebrate our history and to bring together over 500 statewide and local public health leaders, government, and philanthropy partners. We will come together for a full day in-person convening of dynamic keynotes and panel conversations focused on intersectional health equity solutions for our Latinx community.

The event will also be shared with our network consisting of 20,000+ Latinx health stakeholders. Building on our successful 2021 LCHC Policy Summit, we have again partnered with Telemundo 52 to reach their network of 1.4+ million Latinos.

Day 1: October 13, 2023

Continental Breakfast & Registration

9:00AM – 10:00AM: Welcome and Introductions

Executive Director Morning Welcome & Logistics

10:00AM-10:10AM

Executive Director: Dr. Seciah Aquino

Morning Keynote: Annie Gonzalez, Actress and Activist

10:15AM-10:30AM

Panel 1: Somos Nosotros: Re-imagining the Future of the Latinx Healthcare Workforce

10:40AM-11:40AM

Latinx & Indigenous representation in healthcare can save lives. This panel brings together federal, state, and community experts to discuss the central question: amidst a healthcare workforce shortage, how can systems intentionally recruit a workforce that truly represents the diversity of our state? This panel will reflect on the need for Latinx representation in every health related field and how pathway programs can radically transform systems while simultaneously improving the health of our state.

Panel 2: The Lucha for Data Equity: Ensuring Indigenous and Latinx Health Justice

11:50PM-12:50PM

Data can play a powerful role in advancing health equity. This panel will discuss the need for data disaggregation and how it can be used to better understand health disparities in our richly diverse Indigenous & Latinx community. Our federal, state and community leaders will explore themes that arose at LCHC’s 2022 virtual Latinx Health Policy Summit and in the fight for SB435 – including Indigenous Mesoamerican visibility and the importance of data democratization in ensuring successful outreach and resource allocation.

Lunchtime Hora de Poder/Power Hour! 

12:45PM-1:30PM

Panel 3: SanaMente: The State of Latinx Mental Health

1:30PM-2:30PM

Mental health is at the core of our well-being.Having come through the devastating COVID-19 pandemic, Californians across the state are experiencing numerous mental health crises. From urban centers, to rural communities; from coastal cities to inland municipalities – Latinx communities are faced with particular systemic challenges that make accessing mental health care nearly impossible. This panel will explore what is not working for Latinx communities – with an eye toward better solutions.

Panel 4: Our Gente in the Media: Latinxs Transforming the Greater Narrative

2:35PM-3:35PM

Latinx representation can inspire positive change & transformation. For many years, Latinx talent was–and continues to be–shut out from the main stages of decision-making. Now, our Latinx communities are pulling up folding chairs around the writers table, in newsrooms, and in studios throughout Hollywood. What role do Latinx media representatives have in advocating for the real needs of our communities in a seemingly hostile political, economic, and cultural climate? This panel features Latinx journalists and media personalities for a frank conversation on the responsibilities of highly visible Latinxs in leading in a civic space.

Closing and Recap

3:45PM-4:15PM

Afternoon Break

4:15PM-5:30PM

Double-Quinceanera Reception – Guest Performer, Las Cafeteras

Las Cafeteras have taken the music scene by storm with their infectious live performances and have crossed genre and musical borders. Their electric sound & energy has taken them around the world playing shows from Bonnaroo to the Hollywood Bowl, WOMAD New Zealand to Montreal Jazz, & beyond!

Born and raised east of the Los Angeles river, Las Cafeteras are remixing roots music and telling modern day stories. Las Cafeteras create a vibrant musical fusion with a unique East LA sound and positive message. Their Afro-Mexican beats, rhythms, and rhymes deliver inspiring lyrics that document stories of a community seeking love and justice in the concrete jungle of Los Angeles.

Using traditional Son Jarocho instruments like the jarana, requinto, quijada (donkey jawbone) and tarima (a wooden platform), Las Cafeteras sing in English, Spanish, and Spanglish and add a remix of sounds, from rock to hip-hop to rancheras. Las Cafeteras use music as a vehicle to build bridges a Save mong different cultures and communities, and create ‘a world where many worlds fit’.

They’ve performed in the good company of Mexican icons Caifanes, Lila Downs, Colombian superstar Juanes, Los Angeles legends Ozomatli, folk/indie favorites Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, and Talib Kweli.

LA Times described Las Cafeteras as “uniquely Angeleno mishmash of punk, hip-hop, beat music, cumbia and rock … live, they’re magnetic.”