Senior Deputy for Human Development and Services
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Sylvia Drew Ivie most recently worked as a consultant to The California Endowment, advising on disparities in health including better nutrition in low-income communities and assessment of the crisis around King Drew Medical Center.
Until February, 2005, Ms. Drew Ivie was Executive Director of the T.H.E. (To Help Everyone) Clinic, a primary health care clinic that provides health services to minority and immigrant women and families in South Central and Southwest Los Angeles. Her 100-member staff successfully served patients in ten languages.
Her legal experiences include serving as Deputy City Attorney for the City of Los Angeles, practicing poverty and civil rights law for the National Health Law Program in Los Angeles, Assistant Counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in New York, and the Director of the U.S. Office for Civil Rights in the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C. during the Carter administration.
A graduate of Vassar College with a degree in political science and a law degree from Howard University School of Law, Ms. Drew Ivie is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the 1994 Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation’s Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights.
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