Our Purpose is Shaped by People

Get to know our mission, vision, and values, as well as the diverse coalition of individuals and organizations working together to advance health equity.

What Drives Us

Mission

Identify and address the health crisis among your young and middle-aged men, primarily men of color.

Vision

Strengthen community health through innovative partnerships.

Values

Integrity, honesty, transparency, teamwork

Meet Our Leadership

Augustine Dominguez, Co-Chair

Former member of Minnesota House of Representatives. Serves on multiple nonprofit boards
Heidi Benson, Co-Chair

Dental practice consultant.
Jeanne Montrese, Treasurer

Board member, The Circle of Discipline Inc. and several other nonprofit boards. Career with Department of Defense and Department of Justice. Passionate about working with youth and families.
Clarence Jones, Executive Director & Community Health Strategist

Board member, YMCA of the North. Adjunct Instructor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science. Adjunct Professor, Saint Catherine University, School of Public Health.
Ronda Marie Chakolis- Hassan, Pharm.D., MPH, Community Health Strategist

President of the Minnesota Board of Pharmacy. Pharmacist, activist, and community advocate.

Members

People and organizations who align with Hue-MAN’s mission and are engaged in its work on an ongoing basis.

Deltreice Gates, co-founder of Hue-MAN partnership

“Change will not come if I wait for some other person or some other time because I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
Diana Hawkins, Executive Director, Hawthorne

“Diana Hawkins, Executive Director, states: We all face challenges and changes as we get older but we get wiser. I want to follow my heart and have the greatest opportunities as well as embrace my boldest dreams and turn them into realities. I want to be able to reach beyond what society says you are expected to do and focus on my studies, job, community and family.”
Audua Pugh, Off the Blue Couch

“Off The Blue Couch is grateful to be a part of this wonderfully diverse community with its beautiful array of individuals and culture. Our goal is to help communities one person at a time with our healing and transformational initiatives, which give hope for the future!”
Jim Hart, Board Member, WellShare International

“Guided by a commitment to sustainability, a desire to empower through education, and a focus on accountability, WellShare partners with communities and health care providers to design, implement, and evaluate health programs that respond to the needs of each population we serve.”
Robin Austin, University of Minnesota School of Nursing

“I am so grateful the School of Nursing team has been able to partner and collaborate with Hue-MAN and many organizations around our opioid and community strengths work.”
Milton “Mickey” Eder, Ph.D., University of Minnesota Clinical and Translational Science Institute

“Pursuing equality of opportunity and equity in outcomes are among the highest potential achievements of democracy. Such accomplishments require that we ask fundamental questions about ourselves as individuals and social beings. Who is the “We the people” who hold self-evident truths? Our responsibilities to each other must be recognized as the cornerstone of public health. Participating in HUE-Man and other community actions allows us to start considering ways to reduce not only disparities but the causes of disparities.”
Alicia House, Executive Director, Steve Rummler Hope Network

“I am so grateful to have the opportunity to partner and collaborate with Hue-MAN, reaching communities of color to distribute overdose prevention and awareness materials/education and save lives. We are stronger together.”
LifeSource

Organ, Eye and Tissue Donation
Medica

Individual & Family Health Plans