Our Governance Structure

Community Leadership Board

The Sonoma Connect | Sonoma Unidos Community Leadership Board exists to steer Sonoma Connect | Sonoma Unidos towards an equitable and sustainable future by adopting sound, ethical, and legal governance, and financial management policies, as well as by making sure the initiative has adequate resources to advance its values and mission. Ensuring programs, policies, and systems change are community-led is central to the Sonoma Connect | Sonoma Unidos Community Leadership Board.

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Meet our Community Leadership Board

  • Tyson Dickinson, Sonoma County Office of Education

    Tyson has worked for the past 15 years in the Sonoma County school system, where he has focused on supporting students in special education, disrupting harmful and biased discipline practices, creating safe and nurturing school environments, and helping the school community through crises and natural disasters. In his current role as Director of Behavioral Health Services at the Sonoma County Office of Education, Tyson leads a team that strives to improve mental health, wellbeing, and educational outcomes for all public school students, families, and staff in Sonoma County. He believes that by prioritizing those situated farthest from opportunity, and partnering with districts and community stakeholders to provide culturally responsive and inclusive mental health and wellness support, we can increase protective factors and overall outcomes. Raised in Mendocino County, Tyson now lives in Sebastopol with his wife, two kids, two cats, a dog, and most recently, a fish named Buddy. He can often be heard reminding his kids to feed Buddy.

  • Angie Dillon Shore, First 5 Sonoma

    Angie Dillon-Shore is the executive director of First 5 Sonoma County, a community-based organization guiding strategic investments in local early childhood programs and systems. She has over 30 years of experience in the fields of human services and education and has earned master’s degrees in counseling psychology and special education.

  • Cynthia King, Community Action Partnership Sonoma

    Cynthia has over 20 years of experience in the public and non-profit building programs and data systems that facilitate systems change. After completing UC Berkeley’s dual degree program with an MPH in Maternal and Child Health and an MSW in Medical Social Work she spent 9 years as an Data and Evaluation Analyst at Alameda County Social Services Agency, moving to Sonoma County Human Services for a year at Upstream Investments. Since then she has spent time at social service and public health non-profits. She worked for Redwood Community Health Coalition (RCHC), an organization that supports Community Health Centers in 6 Bay Area/NorCal Counties. At RCHC she was the Senior Director of Programs, overseeing various programs in Population Health, Health Informatics, and Outreach and Enrollment. She and her team have been driving and/or supporting CIE work in four counties. Currently, Cynthia is the Executive Director for Frontline Workers Counseling Project (FWCP), an award-winning, Bay Area-based, grassroots charitable organization that connects frontline and essential workers with free high-quality psychotherapy and support groups offered by licensed professional psychotherapists. Cynthia is the chair of the Resource Connection Network Action team managing the technology selection and is also on the Community Leadership Board. She has also been participating in the CBAN Bay Area CIE meetings.

  • Erika Klohe, Buckelew Programs

    Erika is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Regional Director for Sonoma and Napa at Buckelew Programs and a clinician at Sonoma Therapy Network. Her career started as an Insurance Broker, assisting clients with health concerns, claims issues and navigating the healthcare system. Since then, Erika has developed community partnerships throughout Sonoma County, supported community analysis of barriers and challenges, and supported the establishment of shared community practices that increase access to care. Working for many years in the community, she has led several projects in the community that increase support for providers and first responders and community to access to behavioral health care (e.g., substance use, mental health, social determinants of health). Erika is heart centered, innovative and skilled at system analysis as well as has lived and clinical experience in behavioral health. She has provided education and supports shared community practice, increase right level of care at the right time and actively works to build a healthy network of care through our community. Erika studied at SRJC, graduated with a degree in psychology from Sonoma State University and received a Master’s in Social Work (MSW) from CSU-Long Beach. Erika is a strong advocate for culturally diverse, recovery-orientated, trauma-informed and humanistic services, has many years of experience working with our community's most vulnerable, homeless, seniors, LGBTQI, criminal justice system, transitional youth, and underserved youth and their families. Erika enjoys hiking, dancing, doing art and spending time with her family and friends. She is dedicated to serving and increasing the health and wellbeing for all.

  • Jessicca Moore, Petaluma Health Center

    Jessicca Moore, MSN, FNP is the Director of Innovation at Petaluma Health Center. She earned a Masters in Nursing from UCLA and a certificate in Rural and Community Clinic Management from Sonoma State University. Jessicca has been with PHC since 2005 and helped guide the organization through their transition to team-based care and patient-centered medical home. Jessicca has also consulted with Redwood Community Health Coalition on population health and quality improvement efforts, most recently focusing on trauma-informed practice. She approaches problems through a human centered design lens, leveraging her experience as a clinician and a practice leader to her work in quality improvement and innovation to improve outcomes in vulnerable populations.

  • Karissa Moreno, Northern California Center for Wellbeing

    Karissa Moreno is an innovative leader with over two decades of non-profit management and almost fifteen years of progressive health care leadership. Moreno earned her BA in Cultural Anthropology from UC Santa Barbara and her Master’s degree in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago, and her scholarship advocating for the rights of marginalized and underserved populations has won national recognition. She is passionately committed to eliminating socioeconomic and health disparities in our communities, and she approaches whole person wellness through a social justice and health equity lens. Moreno has championed innovative, upstream well-care at community health clinics across the state, and she has led community-based advocacy and empowerment programs both nationally and internationally. Moreno began her health career at Santa Rosa Community Health as a Bilingual Community Health Worker – growing into different roles over her seven-year tenor. She then moved to the Central Valley and served as Chief Operations Officer for Livingston Community Health – where she helped grow a 2- site facility to 6-sites within two years to provide critical access to health care services for rural and remote populations. As Operations Director at Clínica Monseñor Oscar A. Romero in Los Angeles, Moreno spearheaded innovative pilots employing Promotoras de Salud/ Community Health Workers to provide health coaching and support for those struggling with the effects of chronic diseases. In 2018 she joined the Northern California Center for Well-Being as their Executive Director, and in 2020 she was recognized as a Nonprofit Leader by the North Bay Business Journal. Moreno has been instrumental in expanding the growth of the Center's CHW Center of Excellence, and their current scope of work includes CHW Core Competency Training, CHW Monthly Network Meeting, CHW Clinical Integration Pilots, and more! Moreno is a passionate champion of health for all, and she is thrilled to work towards the improved health and wellness of our community!

  • Nubia Padilla, Sonoma County Regional Parks

    Nubia Padilla graduated with an M.A in Psychology Organization Development at Sonoma State University and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering in the National University in Colombia. S.A. For the last 19 years, she has been working with Community Service Programs and Community Engagement and Education Programs in Sonoma County. She had been working with community service programs for diverse populations, in different capacities, including implementing, managing, and developing local and state-wide programs and initiatives for diverse communities. Nubia’s work focuses on diversity and equity for underrepresented communities.

    Nubia was Humanidad Therapy & Education Services’ Executive Director for several years and is now working with Sonoma County Regional Parks as their first Accessibility and Inclusivity Manager.

  • Beth Paul, Aliados Health

    Beth leads the Population Health Department at Aliados Health, a coalition of community health centers located in a six-county region in Northern California. The Population Health team at Aliados Health supports initiatives to strengthen relationships between member health centers and Community-Based Organizations, Family Resource Centers, and schools. Key initiatives include workforce development and capacity building, especially for Community Health Workers and Promotors, and support of Sonoma Connect/Sonoma Unidos. Over the past year, Aliados Health worked closely with Sonoma Connect/Sonoma Unidos to facilitate an equity-focused selection process for a technology vendor to integrate with existing systems throughout Sonoma County to enable cross sector collaboration and information sharing. Beth and her team continue to support community engagement in Sonoma Connect/Sonoma Unidos, the implementation and utilization of the technology platform, and data governance guidance and facilitation.

    Prior to joining Aliados Health, Beth spent more than 25 years consulting for health care systems, community health centers, and universities throughout the country. Her consulting work includes community health improvement planning, strategic and business planning, and new health professional training programs. Beth also held strategic planning and business development positions at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and Sutter Health. Beth earned a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Pennsylvania State University and is currently pursuing a Master of Applied Science in Population Health Management at Johns Hopkins University.