Dannie Ritchie, MD, MPH, a University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine graduate, completed residency in Family Medicine at Montefiore, Medical Center, Albert Einstein School of Medicine, and Master’s in Public Health at Brown University. She works from community to policy level to shift perspectives. She spearheaded the passing of RIGL- 23-64.1, forming the Commission on Health Advocacy and Equity of 2011. It requires health disparities reporting and diversification of the health workforce such as community health workers (CHW). An academic appointment at Brown lets her teach undergraduates how the intersections of race, class, gender and policy (re)produce health disparities and inequity, and medical students on the social and community context of health. In 2011, she also established Community Health Innovation of Rhode Island, an organization to take action on the social determinants of health disparities and inequity. It works to increase the community embedded CHW workforce leading to a community health governance and recognition as being part of our community health system. Here they implement programs to address community priorities as well as move policy and programs that address structural inequities to transform conditions for healthier people and communities. She also focuses on housing, food sovereignty, and policing and is in collaboration with a number of local organizations that address housing and food policy. One of our programs is the Garden at the Vincent Brown Recreation Center and the Sharing Garden in Billy Taylor Park from which we run garden club for the children at Vincent Brown Rec year round and the Teen Plot to Plate Program during the summer months We have just completed our 10th year of the establishment of the garden at Vincent Brown Rec and nine years for the Sharing Garden. The gardens were established to engage and supplement community through food production and institute learning programs, with hands on experience for children and adults. Our summer program provides fresh produce that we grow and other healthy food to families and school-aged children in the Mt Hope neighborhood of Providence. We have provided the meals for the children for the Rec Center summer camp program, serving about 2,600 wholesome nutritious scratch meals over 7 weeks. We provide employment for teens during the summer months. They garden and work with a chef daily preparing meals. We also provide educational activities related to food systems and the environment. Hundreds of pounds of produce are produced and given to the community each year who are invited to assist in production.