Marisol De Ornelas
Graduate Student Researcher
Marisol is a DrPH student focused on studying novel interventions aimed at improving MCAH and health equity. Marisol helps lead research efforts with the Wallace Center's research partners at Alameda Health System.
Edwina Malmberg
Graduate Student Researcher
Edwina is an MPH HSB student working with Dr. Cassie Marshall and Ashley Nguyen in collaboration with SisterWeb San Francisco Community Doula Network. They are evaluating the "Champion Dyad Initiative," a quality improvement program that promotes equitable care for pregnant and birthing individuals in SF. Edwina's role involves analyzing program data and contributing to research on doula-provider partnerships to improve perinatal care for BIPOC communities.
Mounika Parimi
Graduate Student Researcher
Mounika is a DrPH candidate interested in supporting women's health across the lifecourse. Her work positions matrescence -- the transition into motherhood -- as a critical and sensitive period in a woman’s life course that shapes long-term health. By considering the full range of mental, physical, hormonal, cultural, and psychosocial changes that encompass this transition, her work aims to inform public health approaches that support mothers through a whole-person lens during and beyond matrescence.
Danni Yang
Graduate Student Researcher
Danni is an MBA/MPH student working with Dr. Kim Harley and Dr. Lindsay Parham on a big data collaboration between the Wallace Center and the period tracking app Clue. Together, they are analyzing large population-based survey data to better understand the timing, predictors, and characteristics of perimenopause.
Leilani Hernandez
Communications Manager & Research Assistant
Leilani is an undergraduate student studying Molecular and Cell Biology and Public Health. She works with Marisol De Ornelas, contributing to the evaluation of Highland Hospital’s Beloved Birth Black Centering and Spanish CenteringPregnancy projects. Leilani also collaborates with Wallace Center Executive Director, Lindsay Parham to raise the center’s visibility and support outreach efforts.
Noemi Franco
2025 MPH Summer Intern
Noemi is an MPH student from Richmond, California, specializing in Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health with a research focus on Latinx populations. This summer, she worked with the Wallace Center on a program evaluation of Spanish-Centering, a group prenatal care initiative in Alameda County. Read more here.
Samantha Tapia
2025 MPH Summer Intern
Samantha Tapia is an MPH student in the Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health program at UC Berkeley. She is working with Dr. Lindsay Parham and Marisol De Ornelas on the Quality Improvement for Health Equity in Reproduction Initiative (QI4HER+), focusing on evaluating the Spanish Centering program and the Lullaby Project. Read more here.
Olivia Podber
2025 MPH Summer Intern
Olivia is an MPH student at UC Berkeley in the Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health program. She is working with Wallace Center Executive Director Lindsay Parham on the Digital Health Landscape and Equity Project, creating an equity map of digital health apps and technologies in the maternal, child, and adolescent health and sexual and reproductive health fields. Read more here.
Chloe Hood
2025 MPH Summer Intern
Chloe Hood is an MPH student in Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health at UC Berkeley. She is working with Kim Đậu, CNM, on research that explores the feasibility and benefits of combining midwifery and public health education programs to strengthen the maternal health workforce. Read more here.
Agere Teshale
2025 MPH Summer Intern
Agere Teshale is a Master of Public Health student at UC Berkeley studying Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health. She is committed to improving Black maternal health by building on existing community strengths and working toward meaningful systems change.
Sydney McFadden
2025 MPH Summer Intern
As a second-year MCAH MPH candidate, Sydney McFadden (she/her) focuses on ensuring historically excluded perspectives shape the future of reproductive health. At Irth, she worked as a Systems Change Intern, analyzing review data to develop strategies that advance equity and improve birthing experiences. Read more here.