Board of Directors

Carla holds an MSc in global management from the Robert Kennedy College business school in Zurich and her BA from Yale University. Carla currently serves on the board of the Policy Center for Maternal Mental Health and the Global Health Council as the Board Secretary, is the Senior Director of Operations at the Public Health Institute, and keeps her hand in direct care services, working as a consultant on various women’s health projects. She lives in Palo Alto with her children and her beloved mutt, Olive. While California will always be home, Carla is truly a global citizen at heart.

Jaime Cabrera, MPH - Treasurer
Jaime is passionate about promoting education, programs, and public policy that remove barriers for women and girls facing adversity. Jaime is a caring and compassionate leader who demonstrates an outstanding ability to think strategically and collaborate across sectors to positively impact the lives of those living in under-resourced communities.

Jaime serves as the Vice President of Advancement at Girls Inc. of Metropolitan Dallas, one of the largest affiliates in a network of 77 across North America, inspiring all girls to be strong, smart, and bold. In her role, Jaime provides strategic direction and support for all fund development, marketing, communications, and advocacy efforts. 

Prior to joining the Girls Inc. team, Jaime served as the Executive Director of Colorado Perinatal Care Quality Collaborative, a statewide nonprofit leading efforts to make care safer and more equitable for women and infants. She led the organization to significant growth in revenue, staff, and programs. 

Jaime has served in a variety of nonprofit and healthcare leadership roles with a focus on strategic planning, business development, resource management, operations, and finance. Jaime has worked for a number of nationally recognized organizations where she has been invited to represent her work on multiple state and national platforms.

Jaime earned her Master of Public Health in Management and Policy from UCLA and her undergraduate degree from the University of Pittsburgh. She currently serves as a Board Member and Board Treasurer for the Policy Center and enjoys mentoring her Big Brothers Big Sisters “little sister” of 11 years, Mary. Jaime and her husband, Stelios, live in North Texas with their two rescue dogs.

Jennifer Christian-Herman, Ph.D. - Member at Large
Dr. Christian-Herman is the vice president of Mind Body Medicine at Blue Shield of California, a nonprofit health plan serving 4.8 million members in the state’s commercial, individual, and government markets.

In this role, Dr. Christian-Herman leads an evolving portfolio of innovations that leverage technology and clinical interventions focused on behavioral health, lifestyle medicine, social drivers of health, and digital therapeutics, with the goal of improving access to care, member engagement, and clinical outcomes. She is responsible for developing and leading the strategy to transform total-person health for Blue Shield’s members and providers by expanding access to behavioral health care, enhancing care coordination, integrating behavioral health into primary care, and offering robust upstream digital solutions rooted in lifestyle medicine.

Prior to joining Blue Shield, Dr. Christian-Herman was the executive director of Strategic Customer Engagement, Product Innovation and Evaluation at Kaiser Permanente. She previously served as the national vice president for Integrated Health Improvement at Health Net and as the regional director of Clinical Research for CIGNA Health. Dr. Christian-Herman has also held roles with Cerner Health Solutions and at UCLA’s Neuropsychiatric Institute and Department of Psychology.

Dr. Christian-Herman has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and is a licensed clinical psychologist. She is passionate about housing as a driver of health and is involved with issues of mental health in unhoused populations and permanent supportive housing through board roles and work with community agencies in Skidrow and Hollywood.

She is a passionate runner and the proud mother of a 26-year-old son and three rescue dogs.

Sheryl Connelly - Member at Large
Sheryl has served as Ford’s corporate futurist for over fifteen years. As the Chief Futurist, Connelly and her team led discussions on long-term thinking, planning and strategy. Her responsibilities include identifying global trends, exploring potential implications and cascading the futuring insights to organizations throughout the company, including design, product development and corporate strategy. Forbes Magazine recently recognized her as one of the Most Influential Women in Futuring, Fast Company has identified her as one of the Most Creative People in Business and TechWeek has included her in its Top 100. At the request of the World Economic Forum, she sat on its Global Advisory Committee on transportation in 2015 and 2016. Sheryl has been featured speaker around the world included TED2018 and TED Global 2013. Before working for Ford, she practiced law. In addition to a Juris Doctorate, she holds a bachelor’s degree in finance and a master’s in business administration. Connelly lives in Michigan with her husband and their two daughters.

Rosanna Durruthy - Member at Large
Head of Global Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at LinkedIn.
Rosanna is considered a thought leader, strategist and business influencer. Her orientation toward diversity and inclusion enables solutions that drive talent engagement, business growth, customer satisfaction, thriving partnerships and empowered communities.

As the leader of Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at LinkedIn, Rosanna is leading a team who focused on creating economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce.

Rosanna has held several leadership roles prior to joining LinkedIn, including serving as CEO of AEQUUS Group, Rosanna led an organizational consulting practice designed to empower adaptive emerging leaders. Through executive coaching and personal network analysis, she coached women and people of color to achieve new thresholds of leadership and successful career progression within “Fortune 150” companies. Operating from a different philosophy on talent and leadership, Rosanna's practices have been cited in several publications, including the books Chasing Stars: The Myth of Talent and the Portability of Performance by Boris Groysberg, Princeton University Press (2010), and Latinos in College (2010) and Poder de Mujer (2012), along with the English translated Find Your Inner Red Shoes (2012) by Mariela Dabbah.

Benjamin Miller, PsyD - Member at Large
Dr. Miller is the past president of Well Being Trust, a national foundation dedicated to advancing the mental, social, and spiritual health of the nation. Over the last two decades, Dr. Miller has worked tirelessly to prioritize mental health in our policies, programs, and investments. A clinical psychologist by training, Miller works at the intersection of policy and practice, ensuring that mental health and addiction is prioritized across America.

Joy Burkhard, MBA - Executive Director
Joy is the founder and executive director of 2020 Mom. Joy was inspired to found 2020 Mom after several of her worlds collided, including losing her little brother to suicide, learning the complexities of the U.S. health and mental health system while working for a health insurer, becoming directly involved in health care policy change and experiencing the realities of birth and the postpartum period with her firstborn. She recognized she was in a unique position to learn why mothers (and others) were not being treated for mental health disorders in the same way they were for medical conditions.

She has a passion for quality and innovation and believes that the government's role should be to keep its people safe and to that end, establish baseline requirements for businesses so the U.S. can count on our health delivery system. She also believes it's business's role to surpass baseline requirements and delight people with the best possible care.

Joy is known as a collaborator as well as a fierce advocate representing the interests of our largest health care consumers – mothers.

Her most gratifying projects at 2020 Mom have included hosting the organization's annual FORUMs, which brings together hundreds of change agents pushing the envelope in the fields of maternal and mental health as well as the National Coalition for Maternal Mental Health, which convenes non-profits with shared interests in addressing gaps in maternal mental health.

Joy worked for the insurer Cigna where she spent nearly 25 years. She served as a regulatory affairs leader and has a passion for quality improvement and innovation. Joy is a member of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology expert workgroup on Maternal Mental Health and the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative, the nation’s first agency working to solve the U.S.’s maternal mortality crisis.

She has been recognized for her leadership and vision with several awards, including receiving The American Public Health Association’s Maternal Child Health Leadership and Advocacy Award, California's American Mother of Achievement Award, the "Emerging Leader" award in women's health from the federal Health and Human Services Agency, Office of Women's Health and Cigna's Volunteer of the Year award.

Joy lives with her husband and two Jr. High school-age children in Los Angeles, California.