About
Sylvia Drew Ivie, J.D. is currently Special Assistant for Community Affairs to the President of 桃子视频. Her previous positions include service as the Mental Health Deputy for Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl, Senior Deputy for Human Services for LA County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, and Executive Liaison to Los Angeles County Commission for Children and Families at the LA County Board of Supervisors. Ms. Drew Ivie was the Founder and Project Director of the South Los Angeles Community Kitchen, which taught healthy cooking skills to youth, seniors, and patients with chronic diseases. Sylvia was a consultant to the California Endowment on Disparities in Health in South LA, she taught on the faculty of the Community Health Leadership Training Program at Charles R. Drew University, and for 16 years she was the Executive Director of the T.H.E. (To Help Everyone) Clinic, Inc., a federally qualified primary health care clinic serving largely minority and immigrant women and children in South Central and Southwest Los Angeles, California. Previous work experiences include Executive Director of the National Health Law Program, a legal services back-up center, Director of the Office of Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and Assistant Counsel to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
Ms. Drew Ivie was a member of the Advisory Committee to RAND Corporation, has served on the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured from 1991-2016.
Ms. Drew Ivie is a recipient of many awards including the 1993 United Way’s Agency Excellence Award for the Most Innovative Approach to Service Delivery, the 1994 Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation’s Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights, the 1995 Center for Women’s Policy Studies’ Wise Women Award, and the 2002 California Black Caucus’s Community Asset Award. Ms. Drew Ivie earned her Bachelor of Arts Degree at Vassar College and her Juris Doctorate from Howard University School of Law.