JDI's new Young Philanthropist Giving ImPACT will bring together philanthropists under 40 years old to financially contribute, educate, and cultivate awareness around domestic and sexual violence throughout the Commonwealth. This inaugural cohort will engage Young Philanthropists who will meet for 4 educational salons beginning on June 28, 2017 with a look at the intersections of healthcare and gender-based violence.
Our speakers, Josephine Pang and Lucy Dagneau, will share their expertise as health care and violence advocates. See their full bios below.
Lucy Dagneau:
As the Associate Director of the Communications department, Lucy provides strategic communications support to state advocates and federal partners across a range of Community Catalyst projects. Prior to joining Community Catalyst, Lucy worked for Spitfire Strategies, a communications firm that works with non-profits and foundations committed to social change. Her portfolio included issues such as health care, public health, education, and child welfare. Before Spitfire, Lucy worked for former U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd in his Senate office and on his campaign for the 2008 Democratic Presidential nomination. Lucy holds a bachelor's degree from Williams College and a master's in public health in Maternal and Child Health from the Boston University School of Public Health.
Community Catalyst works to ensure consumer interests are represented wherever important decisions about health and the health system are made: in communities, courtrooms, statehouses and on Capitol Hill.
Josephine Pang
Josephine currently has the privilege of working at Newton Wellesley Hospital in the Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault program as the advocate and counselor providing services to patients, employees and community members. Josephine Pang holds an LCSW and graduated from Boston College’s Graduate School of Social Work and the University of California- San Diego.
Previously, Josephine worked in youth development and youth mentoring and practiced community-based family therapy. Josephine has also worked in school settings as an adjustment counselor, in agency settings with LGBQ/T* identifying survivors of DV and SA, has trained in inpatient psychiatry settings and has worked in a residential shelter specializing in providing wrap-around care to homeless teen-aged mothers.
For more information, please contact JDI Board Member Nicole Castillo: nicole.p.castillo@gmail.com