Meet the Instructors

Co-Founder of In The Works

Instructor:
-All About Supplies for Safer Drug Use (Part 1)

Co-Instructor:
-Harm Reduction Primer
-Implementing Harm Reduction into Case Management Services*
-All About Safer Drug Use

Featured in:
-Taking Action on Racial Equity in Drug User Health Programs

Hector Mata, LMSW Pronouns: he/him
Location: New York, NY

Co-Founder of In The Works

Instructor:
-All About the Evidence for Harm Reduction

Co-Instructor:
-Harm Reduction Primer
-Making the Case for Harm Reduction


Featured in:

-Taking Action on Racial Equity in Drug User Health Programs
-All About Safer Drug Use

Sarah Deutsch, MPH Pronouns: she/her
Location: Seattle, WA

Co-Founder of In The Works

Instructor:
-All About Supplies for Overdose Prevention, Safer Sex, First Aid, and Safer Spaces (Part 2)

Co-Instructor:
-Harm Reduction Primer
-Taking Action on Racial Equity in Drug User Health Programs
-All About Safer Drug Use
-Level Up Series*

Taeko Frost, DrPH, MPH Pronouns: she/her
Location: Sacramento, CA

Community Collaborator

Featured in:
-Making the Case for Harm Reduction

Alessandra Ross, MPH Pronouns: she/her
Location: Sacramento, CA

Community Collaborator

Featured in:
-Implementing Harm Reduction in Housing Settings*
-Implementing Harm Reduction into Case Management Services*

Alison Sutter, MPH, MSW Pronouns: she/her
Location: New York, NY

Consulting Partner at In The Works

Instructor:
-Implementing Harm Reduction in Emergency Departments*

Co-Instructor:
-Taking Action on Racial Equity in Drug User Health Programs

Charles Hawthorne, MPH Pronouns: they/them
Location: Oakland, CA

Consulting Partner at In The Works

Co-Instructor:
-Level Up Series*

Featured in:
-Taking Action on Racial Equity in Drug User Health Programs

Joann Gomez, MBA Pronouns: she/her
Location: Raleigh, NC

Community Collaborator

Featured in:
-Taking Action on Racial Equity in Drug User Health Programs
-Making the Case for Harm Reduction
-Implementing Harm Reduction in Housing Settings*
-Implementing Harm Reduction in Case Management*

Jawanza Williams Pronouns: he/him
Location: Brooklyn, NY

Community Collaborator

Co-Instructor:
-All About Safer Drug Use as the original co-author of "Getting Off Right"

Heather Edney Pronouns: she/her
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Community Collaborator

Co-Instructor:
-Wound Care for Non-Clinicians

Kacey Byczek, MSW Pronouns: she/her
Location: Louisville, KY

Organizational Partner

Co-Instructor:
Taking Action on Racial Equity in Drug User Health Programs

Featured in:
Making the Case for Harm Reduction

Kate D’Adamo Pronouns: she/they
Location: Baltimore, MD

Community Collaborator

Co-Instructor:
-All About Safer Drug Use as the original co-author of "Getting Off Right"
-Wound Care for Non-Clinicians
-See The Work Series: Overdose Prevention Centers*

L. Synn Stern, MPH, RN Pronouns: she/her
Location: Brooklyn, NY

Community Collaborator

Co-Instructor:
-Making the Case for Harm Reduction

Lesly-Marie Buer, PhD, MPH Pronouns: she/they
Location: Knoxville, TN

Organizational Partner from NEXT Distro

Featured in:
-All About Safer Drug Use

Lunadelmar Suescun Pronouns: she/ella
Location: Aurora, CO

Contributing Partner

Featured in:
-All About Safer Drug Use

Luka Bair Pronouns: they/them
Location: New Orleans, LA

Contributing Partner

Instructor:
-Implementing Harm Reduction in Housing Settings*

Mattie Loyce, MA Pronouns: she/they
Location: San Francisco, CA

Community Collaborator

Co-Instructor:
-All About the Evidence for Harm Reduction

Monica Ruiz, PhD, MPH Pronouns: she/her
Location: Washington, DC

Community Collaborator

Featured in:
-Taking Action on Racial Equity in Drug User Health Programs
-Wound Care for Non-Clinicians
-Implementing Harm Reduction in Housing Settings*
-Implementing Harm Reduction into Case Management Services*

Nathalia Gibbs Pronouns: they/them
Location: Brooklyn, NY

Community Collaborator

Featured in:
-Wound Care for Non-Clinicians

Natanya Robinowitz, MPH Pronouns: she/her
Location: Atlanta, GA

Organizational Partner

Featured in:
-Taking Action on Racial Equity in Drug User Health Programs

Sasanka Jinadasa, MPH Pronouns: they/them
Location: Raleigh, NC

Community Collaborator

Featured in:
-Taking Action on Racial Equity in Drug User Health Programs
-See The Works Series: Overdose Prevention Centers*

Terrell Jones Pronouns: he/him
Location: Bronx, NY
Production Collaborators

Graphic Design

Andrea Marcos Pronouns: they/she
Location: Seattle, WA

Accessibility & Copy Editing

Dana Kurzer-Yashin Pronouns: she/her
Location: Philadelphia, PA

Music & Audio

Lee Louisville Pronouns: he/him
Location: Jackson, MS