Ms. Garcia leads the largest managed networks of community health workers in the country at Pear Suite, supporting more than 2,500 workers that serve over 100,000 community members monthly across multiple states. Ms. Garcia operationalized the embedding of an unstructured, unregulated workforce within the compliance frameworks, reimbursement infrastructure and quality systems required by Medicaid, Medicare and value-based care, allowing community health workers to document outcomes, meet regulatory standards and sustain their work financially. She began her career as a community health worker conducting Spanish-language outreach for Latino families in rural Texas, and that lived experience now informs how she builds systems at scale, ensuring operational frameworks remain grounded in trust. Among her measurable outcomes, she led a promotora-led colorectal cancer screening campaign that connected more than 500 Latino patients to preventive care. She manages more than 50 health plan relationships, was appointed by Washington State’s Secretary of Health to the maternal mortality review panel, and Pear Suite received the HLTH Foundation “Techquity for Health Award” in 2026.
