When New Board of Directors Co-Chair Alice Gandelman was invited to join the board, she was very moved by the client testimonials, and the dedication of the staff and volunteers. A cancer survivor, Alice credits early detection and the care that she received with playing a major role in her survival.
“Wellbeing and health and survival, quite frankly, is about whether you have the ability to access services and so many people in our country don’t have that ability. I’m very committed to the social justice aspects of health and ensuring that every individual has access to health services regardless of the color of their skin, gender, sexual identity, income level, or other factors that get in the way of their health.”
Before recently retiring, Alice was a director at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF)’s California Prevention Training Center, a national training and technical assistance program that provided training and capacity building for health departments and community-based organizations in HIV, STDs, and more recently COVID.
She is looking forward to working collaboratively on executing CMC’s strategic plan, stating, ”I feel like everybody’s heart is in the right place, and our heads are too. We’re on a journey, and hopefully more people will know about the services, and we will have a very successful next couple of years.”