Ruth Brousseau is Senior Program Officer at The California Wellness Foundation where she and Program Officer Lucía Corral Peña manage the Work and Health Initiative. Prior to coming to TCWF in 1996, Brousseau was program executive for The San Francisco Foundation where she managed a grantmaking program in Community Health and designed the Lifeline Initiative for Children and Youth. Prior to working in philanthropy, Brousseau served as executive director of the Mental Health Association of San Francisco. She has a longstanding interest in the mental health correlates of work and has conducted and published original research on the relationship between work and depressive symptoms among mothers of young children with incomes at poverty levels.

Irene Yen is a social epidemiologist at the UC San Francisco Institute for Health and Aging. Her research focuses on the influence of neighborhood and work social environments on health behaviors and health status and the health effects of racial discrimination. She has worked as a consultant for philanthropic foundations and community organizations including the Yunnan Province Women’s Reproductive Health and Development Program funded by the Ford Foundation and the Oakland-based Center for Elders Independence, an adult day health care center.