Our Guest Speakers:
ELAINE BATCHLOR, Chief Executive Officer, Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hosptial
Elaine Batchlor, MD, MPH, is the Chief Executive Officer of Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital, a state-of-the-art, community-oriented safety net hospital that now provides compassionate, quality care to the South Los Angeles Community. Throughout her career, Dr. Batchlor’s number one priority has been to improve access and quality of care for underserved communities utilizing innovative and collaborative approaches. Her work to increase access for underserved populations has been recognized as an example of leading best practices and adopted throughout California.
KAMALA HARRIS, Attorney General of the State of California
Kamala Harris is the Attorney General of the State of California, a career prosecutor, and a Democratic candidate for California’s open United States Senate seat. From her first days as a prosecutor in Alameda County, to her work as San Francisco District Attorney, to her current service as Attorney General, Kamala has had one client – the people of California – and has time and again made a difference for California families. She is the first woman, African American, and South Asian to hold the offices of San Francisco District Attorney and Attorney General in California. If elected to the Senate, she will be the first African American woman to hold that office in nearly 20 years.