Rocio Rodriguez

Rocio Rodriguez moved to Sonoma County in 2015 after graduating with a B.S. in Microbiology and a B.A. in Anthropology, to gain more experience in community health. She served for 10 months as an AmeriCorps Community HealthCorps member at Alliance Medical Center (AMC) in Healdsburg, where she worked as a community health worker for the patients who visited AMC for their primary care needs. She remained at AMC as a data analyst after her term. 

Rocio joined the Human Rights Commission because of her interest in immigration rights, gender equality, and health equity. Her parents moved from Ecuador during a time of tension between Ecuador and Peru when she was 4 years old. Learning the rocky political history of her parents' country, while growing up on the border of Texas and Mexico with asylum seekers, she became attuned to the global violations of human rights.

She took an active interest in social justice around human trafficking and researched long-term methods and models of rehabilitation shelters for women through an internship with the International Centre for Migration, Health and Development in Geneva, Switzerland. She continued her research in Texas and subsequently gave talks speaking out against the various facets of human trafficking through conferences and forums. 

She is also the vice-president of the Wine Country Young Democrats club, an alternate of the central committee of the Sonoma County Democratic Party, and is on the "Measure O" Citizens Oversight Committee for Santa Rosa."