Heaven Estrada

Heaven Estrada is a devoted public health advocate.

She works towards achieving health equity through undoing the various biases and systems that create disparities. Heaven grew this passion through personal experiences being born and raised in Santa Barbara, CA. She graduated from San Francisco State University with a BS in Health Education and a minor in Women’s Health Issues. After graduation, Heaven spent time working on the Community Wellness team at American Indian Health & Services (AIH&S) in Santa Barbara, CA. There she worked to provide the community with programs that focused on suicide and substance-use prevention through a cultural and traditional lens. She also developed and facilitated presentations to the community and staff regarding the Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit (MMIWG2S) relatives crisis, domestic violence, and human trafficking. She recently completed her Master’s of Public Health at San Francisco State University and is part of the Evolve Equity Research Collective - a professional development collective that focuses on advancing equity by incorporating Indigenous traditional knowledge into public health and clinical practices.

Contact: heaven@nativeland.org