E25 - Costa Rican in the USA

Leda Garside is a bilingual/bicultural Latina professional with 42 years working experience. Her career interests center around nursing education, research, health policy, cultural competencies, health promotion, early interventions, best practices in language interpretation services, community health workers initiatives, and health careers mentoring.Being an active member in professional organizations, coalitions and boards are ways to give back to the community and provide a voice on how to work towards eliminating disparities, how services are delivered, assuring best services experienced to the patient.After 10 years of bedside nursing in neurology and cardiology, her nursing career led her to occupational health, outpatient care, and management. Her lived experiences as a clinician have centered in minority health, focusing working with the Latino/a/x and Mesoamerican indigenous communities and other BIPOC population during the last 32 year, this  have provided her with a solid foundation for understanding and connecting to the various communities that make up Oregon.Leda is an excellent resource to ensure that -- no matter the project – the work will be grounded in diversity, equity and inclusion.Leda has recently retired from direct patient care but continues her work as an advocate and nurse consultant.