For Immediate Release:
March 11, 2021
Contact: Jesus Ramirez
Email: [email protected]
Chicago, IL - Alpha Psi Lambda National, Inc. announces the appointment of Hermana Patricia Flores as the inaugural Director of Health & Wellness. Patricia joined the Fraternity at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Beta Chapter, in Spring 2007. She earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology from UIUC and holds a dual Master’s Degree in Business Administration and Public Health from Benedictine University.
Patricia has a diverse background, including acting as a liaison for the International Health office at Northwestern Medicine, where she assisted international patients as a confidant, city ambassador and coordinated the overall patient experience, and advocated for diversity and inclusion within the hospital. She has assisted Professor Juliet Sorensen, founder of The Northwestern Access to Health Project at the Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern University, where she prepared educational presentations for workshops to teach community leaders and reviewed grants to increase funding for the program. This project is an interdisciplinary initiative focused on human rights, health and development in communities around the world that utilizes teams from the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, Kellogg School of Management, and Northwestern’s Masters in Public Health program to assess and implement health and human rights projects in Ethiopia, the Dominican Republic, Mali, Nigeria, and Lebanon, among other developing nations.