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Frances Goitia Padilla ’81

Frances Goitia Padilla ’81 was appointed president of the Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut, a nonprofit that has lobbied for universal health care in the state. Padilla, who joined the foundation in 2004 and served as executive vice president, succeeds Juan A. Figueroa, the founding president, in September. The foundation employs an activist philanthropy approach to build a movement for universal health care by funding results-oriented outreach, education, and mobilization. Padilla directed the foundation’s research and policy initiatives, which culminated in the development of Connecticut’s historic SustiNet health care reform policy in 2009. Padilla currently serves on the Governor’s SustiNet Health Care Cabinet, charged with overseeing the implementation of federal health care reform under the Affordable Care Act with state-based health care reform initiatives. A psychology major at Wesleyan, she holds a master’s degree in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Frances Goitia Padilla ’81 was appointed president of the Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut, a nonprofit that has lobbied for universal health care in the state. Padilla, who joined the foundation in 2004 and served as executive vice president, succeeds Juan A. Figueroa, the founding president, in September. The foundation employs an activist philanthropy approach to build a movement for universal health care by funding results-oriented outreach, education, and mobilization. Padilla directed the foundation’s research and policy initiatives, which culminated in the development of Connecticut’s historic SustiNet health care reform policy in 2009. Padilla currently serves on the Governor’s SustiNet Health Care Cabinet, charged with overseeing the implementation of federal health care reform under the Affordable Care Act with state-based health care reform initiatives. A psychology major at Wesleyan, she holds a master’s degree in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.