Piper Fellow:
Carmen Heredia

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Carmen Heredia : Piper Fellow

Carmen Heredia was the CEO of Valle del Sol, a nonprofit organization founded in 1970 to provide advocacy, mental health, and leadership training to Latino communities in Phoenix when awarded her Piper Fellowship. Today, Valle del Sol provides integrated behavioral health and primary care health to underserved populations through eight locations in Maricopa County. Valle del Sol is a system of comprehensive Federally Qualified Health Centers and dually Certified Community Behavioral Health Centers.

Heredia currently serves as the Chairwoman of the Community Board of Dignity Health St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center and Westgate hospitals. She also serves on the boards of the Center for the Future of Arizona, the Arizona Council of Human Service Providers, the Arizona Alliance of Community Health Centers, the National Council of Behavioral Health, and the advisory council of the Phoenix Community Development and Investment Corporation. She is a member of Greater Phoenix Leadership.

A leader in her community and organization, Heredia strives for equality and inclusion of underserved populations, especially regarding access to quality healthcare and education. As a Mexican immigrant, she passionately volunteers in Latino civic engagement, various political campaigns, and voting efforts with her family. She lives in Mesa, Arizona, with her husband and three children.

Heredia’s Fellowship plans will focus on honing her technical business skills. She will participate in Stanford Graduate School of Business training courses on strategic investments. Through her Fellowship activities, she will strive to augment her organization’s business portfolio and better layer and leverage opportunities for Valle del Sol with the aim of improving its reach and impact to underserved communities.