Community Leadership
Opportunities for community members to share lived experience and shape the systems of care that affect their families.
Community Accountability Board · ZSFG Ob-Gyn & Solid StartThe People’s
The People’s
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Community-Led. Family-Centered. Rooted in Accountability.
Every family deserves to feel seen, heard, respected, and supported throughout pregnancy, birth, parenthood, and reproductive healthcare.
We’re a growing community of parents, birth workers, advocates, healthcare partners, and neighbors building a future where healthcare is shaped with community — not simply for it. In partnership with UCSF ZSFG, our Community Accountability Board keeps that work rooted where it belongs: with the people it serves.
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About Us
The people closest to the challenges are closest to the solutions.
Communities deserve a seat at the table from the very beginning.
The People’s Collective began with a simple conviction: the people who receive care should help shape it. We bring together lived experience, cultural wisdom, and collaborative partnerships to build systems of maternal, reproductive, and early-family health that truly serve the families they’re meant for.
Our Mission
To restore community-centered care to the heart of maternal, reproductive, and early-family health — by cultivating trusted relationships, honoring lived experience, and creating opportunities for community voices to shape the systems that impact our lives.
Our Vision
A future where every family experiences healthcare with dignity, respect, transparency, and belonging — where community is valued as an equal partner, not simply consulted.
What We Do
Four ways we keep community at the center
The Community Accountability Board is one way we do this work — a bridge between families and the systems meant to care for them.
Education & Resources
A growing collection of community-centered resources for pregnancy, birth, postpartum, parenting, reproductive healthcare, and self-advocacy.
Advocacy & Accountability
Working alongside healthcare organizations to strengthen care and keep community voices central to every decision.
Partnerships
Collaborating with providers, researchers, public health agencies, and community organizations toward shared goals.
Meet the CAB
The heart of The People’s Collective
Community experts. Parents. Advocates. Change-makers. A group of powerful community members who advocate, support, and cultivate change to empower and vocalize community needs.
Our Collective
10 community members with first-hand experience of prenatal or pediatric care at ZSFG. One shared purpose.
When We Meet
Monthly, on the second Tuesday of the month, from 5:00–7:00 PM.
Why It Matters
Members are recognized and compensated as experts — because lived experience is expertise.
Our CAB Team
14 members
Myrai Mills
Student, Mother & Activist
Myrai joined the CAB to share the beauty of her experiences and speak as a young person in an evolving world. “I love to hear the stories of those who have experienced…
Sienna Dunn
Mother, Student & Friend
I joined the CAB to assist minorities in the community with obtaining information about resources that may be available. Joining the CAB allows me to work with other ma…
CameronAngel “Cam” Milligan
Nurturing, Becoming, Poetic
I joined the CAB because I wanted to try something new, get into something I’ve always had questions about. Instead of continuing to have questions, I now have the oppo…
Ruta Lauleva Aiono
Samoan Auntie, Traditional Birth Attendant & Community Advocate
I joined the CAB to bring our Pacific Islander families into the spaces that need our voices but cause harm when we enter them. I joined the CAB to protect families nav…
Lark Thomas
Ready to Serve
Lark’s primary reason for joining the CAB is to advocate for pregnant and parenting adolescent mothers who are often forgotten and overlooked in acquiring adequate medi…
Sophia Tupuola
Warrior, Mama & Brown Girl
Veteran CAB MemberI joined the CAB because I survived thus far — it’s the only choice I have to liberate myself and my community. There is no one else standing in this space for Pacifica…
Maile Chand
Mother, Doula & Community Researcher
Maile joined the CAB to amplify the voices of Black and Brown communities that give birth at ZSFGH. It’s important to her that these mamas feel safe and empowered throu…
Elicia Dangerfield
Mother, Activist & Advocate
I joined the CAB to make a difference in my community, and to advocate for a positive change in health practices concerning people who look like me!
Hope Williams
Mother, Wife & Social Justice Warrior
Veteran CAB Member“When I liberate myself, I liberate others.” — Fannie Lou Hamer. I joined this CAB because I understand that I will never be truly free until all my sisters are equippe…
Fatima Oliver
Mother, Wife & Daughter
As a birth worker, maternal health advocate, mom, and community researcher, I bring firsthand experience supporting Black and Brown families’ reproductive journeys to T…
Jasmine Powell
Bridge, Thought Partner, and a Black & Indigenous Woman
Karen Men
Resource, Liaison & Student
Schyneida Williams
Authentic, Engaged and a Space Holder
Carmen Nakapaahu-Guerrero
Mother, Community Supporter & Active Listener
In the Community
Showing up, side by side
From resource fairs to community celebrations, The People’s Collective shows up where families are — listening, sharing, and building trust in person.
Education Award ’26
Honored with the NCBW San Francisco Chapter Education Award — June 2026.
Meeting families where they are at community resource fairs.
“Respectful Care in Action” — sharing our community standard for care.
What We’re Building
A community hub, made by community
The People’s Collective is growing into a place where San Francisco families can find what they need — and help shape what comes next.
Find trusted educational resources
Learn self- and family-advocacy
Connect with community orgs and support services
Stay informed about community events
Learn about respectful, equitable healthcare
Help shape a healthier future for SF families
Coming Soon
The Purple Book
Community Resource & Accountability Guide
A living guide created by community, for community — gathering the resources, rights, and support families need, all in one trusted place.
Our Values
What we hold ourselves to
Six commitments that guide every conversation, partnership, and decision.
Community First
The wisdom of lived experience belongs at every decision-making table.
Respect
Every person deserves dignity, compassion, and humanity.
Partnership
Meaningful change happens when communities and institutions work together.
Transparency
Trust grows through honesty, openness, and accountability.
Reciprocity
Mutual learning, shared responsibility, and giving back.
Growth
Staying open to learning, evolving, and creating new possibilities.
Community Resources
A resource hub is on the way
Soon this will become the online home of the Purple Book — our Community Resource & Accountability Guide. Here’s a preview of what you’ll be able to explore.
PregnancySoon
BirthSoon
PostpartumSoon
ParentingSoon
Reproductive HealthSoon
Mental Health & WellnessSoon
Community Support ServicesSoon
Self-Advocacy ToolsSoon
Know Your RightsSoon