Sickle Cell Disease Foundation Staff
Mary E. Brown
President & CEO
Deborah Green
Director of Health Education Program Director
Marlene E. Espinoza, MPH
Director of Newborn Screening Program/Health Educator/CHW
Patrice L. Ragin
Director of Operations
Portia Langdon
Director of Family Programs and Services/Health Educator
Carla Francisco, LCSW, MA
Director of Behavioral Health
Eileen Murray
Certified Sickle Cell Trait Counselor/Health Educator
Anthony C. Wells
CHW Regional Clinical Manager
Yadira Duran Badwan
CHW Program Manager - Training and Compliance
Betty Lucatero
Program Coordinator
Tina Coleman, MPH, MCHES
Training & Curriculum Design Specialist
Kameko Davis
Program Assistant
Jennifer Fields, MPH
Implementation Strategist
Keyasia Currie
Community Health Worker
Ashley Meneses Community Health Worker
Sharod Johnson Community Health Worker
Jasmine Marshall
Community Health Worker
Ron Esponilla
Project Coordinator
Krzel Manansala-Tan, MPH, CHES
Community Health Worker
Ashley Williams, MPH
Program Manager
Rialton Reid
Receptionist/Office Assistant
Samantha Parnitvithikul, ACSW
Behavioral Health Therapist
Genesis Williamson
Receptionist/Office Assistant
Michael Allen
Community Health Worker
“When I think of SCDF I get the feeling of comfort…”
“Having two daughters with sickle cell, I can’t even begin to express the ways the foundation has been there for me mentally and emotionally over the past 30 years. The support groups, the guidance, the Social Workers, the camp they sponsored every summer, where my girls could be normal, the Christmas parties. They are a place of refuge in the storm that is sickle cell disease."