Arissa Palmer is the Executive Director of BreastfeedLA, where she has provided transformational leadership since 2015. With more than two decades of experience in public health, program planning, advocacy, and fundraising, she is passionate about advancing health equity and reproductive justice. Arissa began her social justice career in Baltimore and has held leadership roles with a federally qualified health center and an HIV service organization. She holds a Master's Degree in Health Science with an emphasis in Community Health and serves in national breastfeeding leadership roles. She is also the proud mother of a teenage son, a role that has taught her resilience, humility, and that some of life's toughest leadership lessons happen at home