Victoria Adewumi

Victoria Adewumi, MA, CHW, MPH is a public health practitioner and Community Health Worker (CHW) with deep experience promoting the health and wellbeing of young people in municipal, non-profit, K-12, higher education and faith-based organizational settings. Victoria specializes in facilitating the empowerment of historically marginalized communities and implementing health equity interventions through coalition building, direct service, case management, policy development and advocacy. Victoria is one of the inaugural Co-Executive Directors and Co-Principal Investigators of the Community Health Worker Center for Research and Evaluation (CHW-CRE) where she supports the training of CHWs and CHW researchers in evaluation methods that uplift the CHW workforce, as well as the development of common process and outcome indicators to strengthen CHW programs globally. Prior to her work at CHW-CRE, Victoria spent 11 years as a Community Health Worker with the City of Manchester, New Hampshire leading health equity initiatives and championing optimal health outcomes for adolescents through a community school model and while also managing and directing grassroots non-profit organizations that support New Americans. Victoria holds a BA/MA from the University of New Hampshire, and an MPH from Johns Hopkins University.