Cinthia Rodriguez Navin, DNP, Member at Large, MHealth Fairview-Riverside

Cinthia Rodriguez Navin, DNP, Member at Large, MHealth Fairview-Riverside. Striving to uplift equity lesson learned in her previous roles in Public Health as a nurse supervisor and as a community organization lead in the Birth Equity Community Council (BECC). Her life work is around challenging and dismantling inequitable paradigms. She is a staunch supporter of radical inclusivity and working from the margins through the “muddled middle”, as methods of moving racial equity and health equity work forward.  She has experience as a floor nurse in large urban hospitals, as a nursing instructor at a local community college, and as a public health nurse and nursing supervisor in a local public health department. She holds a B.A. from Macalester College in Latin American Studies, Hispanic Studies, and has an Education minor. At Macalester she was a recipient of the Mellon Mays Fellowship, where her thesis focused on uplifting the voices of the women and families of the femicides of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. She received her Master of Nursing from the University of Minnesota, focusing her thesis on Mindfulness-based stress reduction application in elementary school settings. She has earned her Doctor of Nursing Practice in Transcultural Nursing Leadership, from Augsburg University.  Lastly, but most importantly she is the proud mother of three highly talented children, who challenge her to think differently, and work to make a better future for generations to come.