Aimee Chitayat, Program Director

Aimee Chitayat comes to the Insight Center with significant experience in designing large-scale social change for low-income communities. She has held senior positions in health, long-term care, and workforce development in foundation, government, consulting, and nonprofit agencies. Aimee’s breadth of experience includes executive leadership,    program design, training and technical assistance, research and evaluation, cross-sectoral collaborations, and policy advocacy.

Aimee currently directs the SNAP E&T Expansion Initiative, which increases and expands the quality of workforce services through the federal SNAP (or CalFresh) Employment and Training Program. Through that Initiative, she designed a program known as Cal Success and disseminated it to community colleges in California. She also directs the New Orleans Building Child Care project, an effort to rebuild child care facilities following Hurricane Katrina. The project supports the creation of a New Orleans loan fund for child care facility development and a website with guidelines for quality facility construction.

Aimee is leading Insight Center's exploration of a newly emerging field, the social determinants of health, which demonstrates that inequality in income, education, assets and race causes health inequities.

She has consulted on sector-initiative policy and program work through the National Network of Sector Partners and provided technical assistance on public financing and sector development for Bay Area workforce programs.

Prior to joining the organization, Aimee served for five years as the founding Executive Director of the Community Clinic Consortium of Contra Costa and Solano Counties. The Consortium advocated improved health access and quality of care for low-income populations, and provided technical assistance and training to community health centers in areas such as behavioral health care, health information technology and workforce development. During her tenure at the Consortium and in other positions, Aimee obtained over $7 million in grant funding.

 As a full-time Research Associate with RTZ Associates and with independent clients, Aimee led planning efforts or provided technical assistance to counties in reorganizing  publicy funded health and long-term care systems. New models she helped to design or implement include Kaiser Permanente’s Labor-Management Partnership, the In-Home Supportive Services Public Authority, and countywide Acute and Long-Term Care Integration.

Aimee received an M.S.W. from University of California Berkeley School of Social Welfare with a focus on health planning and management, and received a B.A. from Brown University.

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