Advisory Board Member, HUMANDREAM Foundation

• White House President’s Lifetime Achievement Award recipient
• Co-Chair, United Nations Association USA Human Rights Affinity Group
• Chair, American Public Health Association’s Health Informatics and Information Technology Section
• Over two decades of child welfare and emergency response expertise spanning 7,000 or more case investigations, Los Angeles County
• Lived experience as a recipient of LA County child welfare services

Ruby Guillen, MSW brings over two decades of direct service expertise in child welfare, emergency response, and public health informatics across Los Angeles County, alongside her own lived experience as a recipient of LA County child welfare services. This combination of institutional knowledge and personal community experience is the same quality of perspective that defines the workforce HUMANDREAM’s programs are designed to develop, and it is the reason her advisory work at HUMANDREAM is substantive rather than nominal.

As Co-Chair of the United Nations Association USA Human Rights Affinity Group, her network connects HUMANDREAM Foundation’s governance and program work to the UN ECOSOC-accredited global civil society ecosystem spanning 190 countries. This network bridges HUMANDREAM’s community-rooted programs across California, Kenya, and the Democratic Republic of Congo to the international human rights and development networks that amplify their reach and institutional credibility.

As Chair of the American Public Health Association’s Health Informatics and Information Technology Section, she brings directly applicable expertise in health data systems, workforce accountability infrastructure, and public health technology. Her public health informatics expertise directly governs the outcomes tracking infrastructure for HUMANDREAM’s CHW Corps initiative, measuring graduate employment rates, CHW retention, service delivery metrics, and health outcomes. The accountability architecture she has shaped ensures that CHW Corps produces the verified, employer-facing evidence base required by future funders, Medi-Cal payers, and workforce partners.

Her direct service career spanning 7,000 or more case investigations in system-impacted families and communities across Los Angeles County informs HUMANDREAM Foundation’s provider accountability framework across all three active programs. The combination of investigative rigor and community trust that characterizes effective child welfare and emergency response work is the same combination HUMANDREAM’s workforce and governance programs are designed to build in the people and systems they serve.