Name: Carrie Marsh

Position Title: Health Educator/ Trainer

Phone: 415-274-1970 x0028

Credentials: Carrie graduated from Hampshire College in Amherst, MA with a bachelor's degree in Sexuality Education and Gender Studies. She has worked for the last 10 years as an anti-opression and youth health advocate in her hometown of St. Louis, MO. She worked for 4 years as a relationship violence/sexual assault prevention educator and coordinated a local LGBT crisis hotline.

Hobbies: Dancing, eating good food, spending time with friends, musicals and catching up on sleep.

Why is she here: Carrie has a passion for working with youth around anti-oppression and health. She is currently working on her Masters degree in Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University. She is working in partnership with HIFY to complete her field study and is helping facilitate groups as well as working on curriculum development.

Name: Cassandra Benton
Position Title: Health Educator/ Trainer

Email: benton@hify.org

Phone: 415-274-1970 x0045

Credentials: Cassie has been working with HIFY since 2005, and since then has presented over 133 workshops, reaching over 1,550 youth. She received over 70 hours of intensive training on Health and Youth Development, Latin@s Health and Youth Development, Positive Sexuality, Working with LGBT youth, Substance Use and Youth, and Harm Reduction
Hobbies: Reading romance novels, blowing bubbles, and catching up with friends in her spare time.
Why is she here?: Cassie enjoys the works she does with youth, believing that she's building up her community, learning new skills and making friends along the way.

Email: samayoa@hify.org

Phone: 415-274-1970 x0021

Credentials: Elizabeth came to HIFY initially as Director of Finance and Administration in 2008. When HIFY’s Executive Director left the organization for health reasons, Ms. Samayoa ably stepped in and continues to lead the organization.  Ms. Samayoa has over 21 years of Non-Profit Program Management & Finance experience at health & social services organizations.
She has held various positions including Finance and Personnel Director, Program Manager, Fiscal Officer, Director of Finance & Administration among others. She has a Master’s degree in Public Administration from California State University at Hayward, a certificate of Non-Profit Management and a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration.  

Name: Gladys Reyes

Position Title: Bilingual Health Educator

Phone: 415-274-1970 x0028

Name: Kate Sorensen
Position Title: Marketing/Grant Writer
Email: sorensen@hify.org
Phone: 415-274-1970

Name: Kenny Robinson

Phone: 415-274-1970

Credentials: Kenny is currently at SFSU finishing up a BA in Sociology and a Minor in Sexual Studies. 
Hobbies: Crafting, Sleeping, Cooking, taking pictures of her cat.
Why is she here? She is here because she believes that it is important for youth, especially Queer identified youth, to have a safe place to just be themselves. 

Name: Luis Guerra
Position Title: Program Manager

Email: guerra@hify.org

Phone: 415-274-1970 x0028

Credentials: Luis is a bilingual community organizer who holds a Bachelor degree in Systems Engineering, studies on Public Health and HIV Prevention. He has extensive training in curriculum development, substance use/abuse, STIs, and other health topics. Luis joined HIFY first as a Community Advisor for the FABULOUS program and then as a Program Manager bringing a strong background in community health assessments, program planning and youth work. Luis oversees different prevention and harm reduction trainings/strategies in a variety of community-based settings including middle schools, high schools, shelters, jails, streets and others.
Hobbies: Marathon training, playing guitar, cooking for friends and organizing his ginormous digital music collection.
Why is He here? To offer youth more options in life to improve their decision-making process.

Name: Pike Long

Position Title: FABULOUS Coordinator / Health Educator

Email: long@hify.org

Phone: 415-274-1970 x0036

Credentials: Pike has been involved in social justice organizing since 1999, when she attended the WTO protests in Seattle. Her
subsequent experience with grassroots community organizing convinced her that the best way to make an impact on society is by educating and empowering youth, and so she developed and completed a Bachelor's degree at San Francisco State University called Youth Empowerment for Social and Environmental Justice. She is passionate about LGBTQ issues and health access, and serves on the board of Lyon-Martin Health Services, as health supervisor for Youth Empowered Action Camp, and as the outreach and development coordinator for the SF LGBTQ Speakers Bureau.

Hobbies: Traveling (nationally and internationally), vegan baking, bicycling, learning bass guitar, and making stencil art.

Why she is here: Working with youth (particularly LGBTQ- identified youth) on issues of social justice and health education is a dream come true for Pike! She loves presenting and facilitating workshops, and hopes to help HIFY eventually develop comprehensive anti-oppression trainings to add to their already impressive array of offerings for youth and their allies.

Name: Rocky Chau

Position Title: Bilingual Health Educator

Phone: 415-274-1970 x0028

Credentials: Rocky holds a bachelors in Sociology from San Francisco State University.  He is a bilingual in English and Cantonese.
Why Is He Here? I'm here to help educate youth about issues regarding sex, bullying, and personal well-being..

Name: Sheena Castrejon
Position Title: Bilingual Health Educator

Email: castrejon@hify.org

Phone:415-274-1970 x0020

Credentials:Sheena Joined HIFY as a Peer Health Educator in 2006. She was a Peer Health Educator at HIFY for 2 years. In 2007 she also got the opportunity to hop on board with WORLD (Women Organized to Respond to Life threatening Diseases) as one of their peer health educators. Sheena then took a maternity leave for a year, and had the opportunity to come back to HIFY as the Bilingual Health Educator. She has been here for almost 5 years.
As she returned to HIFY after her 1st child she became very interested in teen pregnancy. Sheena now is working on a curriculum for youth on pregnancy options and parenting. She is very passionate in the work that she is currently doing. She feels there is a strong need in the Latina/o community on sexual health, as well as in the young community on teen pregnancy. Sheena is also very interested in working with kids with mental, and some physical disabilities, and hopes to work with both populations at some point.
Why is she at HIFY? Sheena is at HIFY because she believes in empowering youth to make better choices than the ones she has made. She believes that adults could help youth by communicating with them in their own language, and by being open on important health topics.

Name: Anna Fagergren

Position Title: Evaluator

Email: Anna Fagergren