Victoria Adinkra is a Senior Housing Specialist at Cityblock Health, where she leads innovative housing navigation and stabilization efforts across Massachusetts. With a background in public health and community partnerships, she works at the intersection of health equity, housing access, and culturally responsive care. Victoria is also pursuing her MBA in Healthcare Administration at UMass Amherst’s Isenberg School of Management, where she focuses on designing systems that improve outcomes for historically marginalized communities.
Just as health plans have learned to identify and intervene early with chronic conditions like diabetes or heart disease, they can and should do the same for housing and other health-related social needs.