Ann Griego, MD UCSF; Born in the East Bay, Ann studied Anthropology at Yale – a discipline that fed her interest in stories and revolutions – and led her to Latin America where she coordinated AIDS education programs in the Dominican Republic, studied breastfeeding in Chiapas as well as work in Honduras, Nicaragua and Ecuador. Desiring political change back home, she worked with public schools in Portland, OR and at an abortion clinic in Oakland, CA – though she found that her work as a house painter paid better. She is interested in models of care that empower the patient and build community and hopes to put into practice the Centering groups she studied for her master’s thesis at Berkeley. She relishes occasions to laugh loudly, be barefoot, and her partner, Steve.