- Email: shernandez-cancio@familiesusa.org
- Twitter: @sinsipuede
Sinsi Hernández-Cancio, JD
Health Equity Director
Families USA
- Health Care Access and Quality
- Systemic Oppression
- African American
- American Indian/Alaska Native
- Asian and Pacific Islander
- Children and Youth
- Latino
- Low Income
- Women
Sinsi Hernández-Cancio is the Director of Health Equity at Families USA, where she leads the organization’s efforts to advance health equity and reduce healthcare disparities across all of its issue areas. Ms. Hernández-Cancio is continuing the organization’s work to help build a thriving and vocal health equity movement that will protect the gains of the Affordable Care Act while ensuring maximum equity in its implementation. She also currently serves as a patient and caregiver representative on the Addressing Disparities Advisory Panel for the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). Ms. Hernández-Cancio professional career began at Georgetown Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellowship at the Women’s Rights Project of Human Rights Watch. She also worked as the Health and Human Services advisor for two Puerto Rico Governors at their District of Columbia offices. Following, she worked on health policy for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) as the National Campaign Coordinator for SEIU’s Healthcare Equality Project. Ms. Hernández-Cancio is a nationally recognized health equity policy expert and regularly speaks at convenings and conferences across the country. Bilingual and bicultural, she has extensive media experience in both English and Spanish outlets. Ms. Hernández-Cancio earned an A.B. from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and a J.D. from New York University School of Law, where she was a Hays Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Fellow.