CHER welcomes staff member Zina Ogunnaya!

Zina Ogunnaya serves as a Health Educator and Outreach Specialist for the PPOWER2 project. She matriculated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Public Health and Dance, Performance Studies. Her work in youth mentorship and research propelled her to combat health disparities through preventative health workshops.

Zina has three years of youth engagement experience through Truth initiative- a national non-profit that has prevented over a million youth from smoking. She facilitates workshops that employs art as a creative gateway into mental health and substance prevention dialogue.