Felica Jones, CEO

Formerly the Director of Programs at Healthy African American Families II (HAAF), Felica Jones is now the new Executive Director. As the Executive Director at HAAF, she is committed to decreasing health disparities in Los Angeles County by addressing the Social Determinants of Health in South Los Angeles and the surrounding communities. Over the past 20 years, Ms. Jones has worked on numerous research projects in various roles from Community Researcher to Co-Investigator, including projects funded by the NIH and PCORI. These projects have addressed such diverse topics as autism, depression, preterm pregnancy, diabetes, and asthma, just to name a few. In addition, she is a co-author on more than 40 peer-reviewed publications and has provided mentorship and training to junior researchers and community members. She views Community Partnered Participatory Research (CPPR) as a key method for improving community participation in research. Ms. Jones was one of the members of the partnership that received the 2015 UCLA Landmark Program of the Year Award, the 2015 Community Campus Partnerships for Health Award, and the 2014 Joint Team Science Award given by the Association for Clinical and Translational Science and the American Federation for Medical Research for Community Partners in Care, an NIH-funded CPPR project on depression in under-resourced communities.

Andrea Jones, Project Specialist

Andrea Jones is a Projects Specialist in at Healthy African American Families. Ms. Jones is the program assistant for the Division of Community Engagement of Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science’s “Good News Radio Magazine”, a weekly live one hour radio magazine designed to promote equity in holistic health outcomes and research involvement. She also co-teaches H266, a course on community engagement, for the Robert Wood Johnson Clinician Leaders Program at UCLA with Dr. Kenneth Wells, UCLA. In addition, she served on the Community Faculty at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science from 2010-2014. She served as Project Coordinator at HAAF for the Witness4Wellness Project (W4W), a community-based partnership for building community strength and overcoming the burden on communities of depression, particularly in communities of color. She has presented at several community and academic conferences and is a co-author on approximately 20 publications on community engagement. She is also one of the members of the partnership that received the 2015 UCLA Landmark Program of the Year Award, the 2015 Community Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) Award, and the 2014 Joint Team Science Award given by the Association for Clinical and Translational Science and the American Federation for Medical Research for Community Partners in Care, a Community Partnered Participatory Research (CPPR) project on depression in under-resourced communities

Anthony Brown, Mens Health Coordinator

Anthony Brown has worked in non-profit community agencies for over 15 years. He currently works for Healthy African American Families Phase II as the Men’s Health and Preterm Delivery Coordinator. Anthony's prior projects include working and volunteering with Planned Parenthood L.A. , National Family Life and Education as an Outreach Worker, and Community Coalition. He has participated and led numerous community forms and focus groups, and is actively involved in community change.

Ericka Wright, Office Assistant

Ericka Wright has volunteered with Healthy African American Families since 2011. She officially joined the team in 2016. and her employment at HAAFII has broadened her knowledge of health disparities in the community. True to the African value of Sankofa, she wants to pay it forward and spread her knowledge to those in need. When Ericka is not at HAAFII she clocks into her other full time job; being a mom to her son!

Zoe Magnes, MS
Community Engagement Specialist

With a B.A. in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and M.S. in Psychology from Walden University, Zoe played a vital role in the Community Partners in Care (CPIC) collaborative that established the effectiveness of Dr. Loretta Jones' community-partnered participatory research (CPPR) approach in improving mental health disparities.

Zoe works to bridge the gap between community and academia by promoting equitable partnerships. She has engaged extensively with African American, Latiné, Asian American, and LGBTQ+ communities. Vegan since 2001, Zoe's core values are honesty, consent, and compassion.

Adrian OlIVA

Adrian Oliva is an office assistant at Healthy African American Families. A former volunteer for the Red Shield and an alumnus of USC with a degree in mechanical engineering, he joined the HAAF family since September 2019. Through his employment at HAAF and the partnerships that HAAF has formed, he has gotten a unique perspective on the social and health issues prevalent in the community. He aims to become a voice for the community along with his fellow staff members through the knowledge gained from working at HAAF.

Photographs by Ariel Renee Photography