Riisa Rawlins is the interim Chief Executive Officer for the St. Louis Regional Health Commission. She has served in leadership positions and as an independent consultant for various nonprofits in the St. Louis Region since relocating to the area in 2004. She has over 20 years of experience in cultural competence and stigma reduction, integration of primary care and behavioral health, and positive youth development which she employs in her professional and volunteer service on numerous local nonprofit boards and committees. Inspired by her parents and motivated by her 3 children with a 19.5 year age span, Riisa is committed to a visionary yet tactical pursuit of just and equitable systems. “My guiding priority is to create mechanisms and accountability that refuses to take us off the hook but reorients us to action. We know what is wrong – now is the time to create anew.”

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