Rica Rodriguez-Hernandez has over 20 years in the care management and advocacy field working with individuals from diverse cultures and socio-economic backgrounds. Rica is a fierce activist who sits on several community advisory boards as well as board of directors of organizations both locally and nationally. She is a certified trainer in peer recovery coaching, peer support professional, AcuDetox Specialist and is a fearless grassroots organizer in the Denver metro area. Rica currently works full time as the Director of the Urban Impact team at Life-Line Colorado, an essential community-based program, providing gang intervention/prevention services, mentorship, violence interruption, overdose prevention & awareness and many other imperative supportive services to at-risk youth in the Denver metro area. As the part time Director of The Promotores De Esperanza program, as a certified peer and family specialist, Rica aims to promote racial/ethnic health equity through the provision of culturally and linguistically competent services, designed to minimize barriers in the Latinx, Spanish speaking and other marginalized communities. In all scopes of her work, Rica offers prevention supportive services around sexually transmitted diseases, drug overdose awareness, Narcan education/distribution and fentanyl testing to prevent loss of life and loved ones.