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Appendix 4 - Summary Biographical Sketches for Key Persons Daisy Perez Role: Project Director/Principal Investigator Affiliation: Assistant to the City Manager, City of Santa Ana Daisy Perez is a Senior Management Analyst and Assistant to the City Manager for the City of Santa Ana. She will serve as the Project Director/Principal Investigator for the HEAL-OC Initiative. Ms. Perez was selected to be the PD/PI by the Mayor and City Manager based on her successful leadership of the Santa Ana CARES program, a $28.6-million program including the CARES Mobile Resource Center. Through this program, residents were provided direct access to walk-up COVID-19 testing, in -person grant application assistance, personal protective equipment, and other critical resources to over 50,000 households and over 200 unique sites across the city within a five -month period. Since joining the City in 2017, she has also led the 2020 Census Education and Outreach Campaign, Santa Ana Counts, administered various federally funded programs including the HUD Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and Home Investment Partnership (HOME) programs, and has experience in administering grants for local transportation projects, Tax Allocation Bonds, and affordable housing. For HEAL-OC, Ms. Perez will apply her experiences in Community Engagement, Program Management, and Administrative Leadership and Compliance, to ensure the project is successful. As PD/PI, she will provide oversight to all aspects of the project including serving as the primary administrative lead for the City. She will work with the Program Manager and Steering Committee to ensure timely progress toward milestones, subcontract set-up and monitoring, and financial reporting. Margarita Gonzalez Macedonio, MA Role: Program Manager Affiliation: District Manager and Senior Community Planner, City of Santa Ana Ms. Gonzalez Macedonio is a seasoned and innovative city and county planning, affordable housing, and community development professional with 24+ years' experience working in the public sector in collaboration with a network of community and business stakeholders. A solution -oriented and driven leader focused on a meaningful process to deliver impactful social outcomes and collectively strengthen organizations. In her role with the City, she coordinates with City COVID-19 task force to implement on -the -ground $28M Santa Ana CARES program strategy in direct assistance, testing at City facilities and neighborhoods blocks. She supports the City Manager's Office on implementing equity- and place -based strategies to sign up people from high SVI neighborhoods to receive COVID-19 vaccine. For HEAL-OC, Ms. Gonzales Macedonia will apply her programmatic and project management experience to oversee the technical, professional, managerial, and support functions, and will assume responsibility for assuring the validity and quality of proposed activities including the Disparity Impact Statement and Population Health Literacy Plan. Isabel Becerra Role: Implementation Lead - Community Health Centers Track Affiliation: Chief Executive Office, Orange County Coalition of Community Health Centers Isabel Becerra is CEO of the Coalition of Orange County Community Health Centers and a founding member of OCHEC-CAP with more than 30 years of experience. As CEO, she provides administrative leadership, financial direction and oversight of advocacy matters on behalf of Orange County community