Esmeralda Ramos

Esmeralda Ramos is a graduate from UCLA with a Bachelor's of Arts in Sociology and a minor in Chicana/o Studies (Spring 2007). She has been at the Center for Health Services and Society since September of 2005. Her work began with Carolyn Mendez-Luck on the Mexican Elder Care Project in which she interviewed Mexican/Mexican-American women caregivers, transcribed, and translated these interviews from Spanish to English. She then became a full-time staff as a Community Worker III, hired through Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, for Dr. Jeanne Miranda with Project Export in Summer 2007 under the supervision of Veronica Jimenez. Through Project Export she has worked with elderly Latino populations who suffer from Diabetes and Depression and had the opportunity to teach two CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) groups in 2009 in the San Fernando Valley. In 2008, she became a full-time staff as a Staff Research Associate III and Project Manager for Dr. Ken Wells' Community Parnters in Care (CPIC) study. She currently manages all aspects of CPIC including the planning, implementation, and evaluation. Since CPIC is a Community Partnered Participatory Research (CPPR) project, one of her main responsibilities is to facilitate partnerships and partner's participation in research as well as communications. She also represents and promotes the project to community organizations, provides administrative support in project related meetings, trainings, and events and assists with Spanish translation for adverse events with depressed clients.