Meet the Team

  • Jeremy Liu

    Chief Housing Officer
    As a nationally-recognized community development innovation expert, Jeremy uses his track record of transformative projects in real estate, community development, urban agriculture, food retail, green infrastructure, and arts and culture. Jeremy has worked as a real estate developer, business builder, artist and cultural producer, community organizer, and technology designer.

  • Joshua Prasad

    Chief Operating Officer
    Josh is a strategist who is working on tearing down the structures that prevent an equitable society. This has taken him across government, politics, big consulting, non-profits, payors, health tech and direct care delivery where he has led and advised national leaders, campaigns and programs.

  • Sameer Sood

    Chief Executive Officer
    Sameer is an engineer and physician who has created several organizations at the nexus of healthcare and design. As a systems think, he’s sought to engage stakeholders in understanding how societal structures, individuals behaviors, psychology and socioeconomic status impact a person’s health and pursuit of meaning.

  • Ramon Llamas

    Community Strategist
    Ramon’s interests include a reduction in health disparities across all races as well as a reduction in health disparities between genders by addressing the social determinants of health in community settings. He has worked with and for numerous include social innovation labs, personalized health communications and medical sociology and anthropology. Ramon strongly believes in empowering individuals to be proactive participants in their own health and well-being.

  • Keri Arnold

    Community Strategist
    After majoring in Criminal Justice and quickly realizing that participating in the carceral system in any capacity further perpetuates racist, predatory systems, Keri decided to change course and start occupying a more upstream, antecedent-focused approach to community care. This approach was accompanied by years and years of trying to unlearn and do better, which, ultimately, led her down multiple professional paths, spanning from direct services to social work to healthcare policy. Keri's dedication to working in, and with, low-income communities remains central to both their personal and professional mission, as Keri firmly believes that monetary and social restitution is the only path forward. To fill Keri's proverbial cup, they like to play soccer, thrift (or "treasure hunt," as her daughter says), and just be outside.

  • Rachel Krausman

    Community Strategist
    Rachel is​ a seasoned social impact professional who loves solving complex problems by bringing divergent stakeholders together and building cross-sector partnerships. She has led the development and nationwide scaling of programs for organizations like United Way Worldwide and the American Red Cross, prioritizing client voice and positive long-term outcomes. Prior to launching a consulting practice, Rachel led national partnerships and SDOH strategy for ProMedica, a nonprofit health system in the vanguard of healthcare investment in social care and community development. Rachel joined the FwdSlash team because she enjoys collaborating with and enabling diverse, passionate individuals who are driven to do good for others authentically and boldly. Rachel lives in southern Maine with her wife and rescue pitbull, Aoife. 

  • John Pateña

    Community Strategist

    John is a public health professional with a passion for promoting mental wellbeing and bridging the research-to-practice gap. He believes that mental health cuts across all health conditions and that it’s a needed component for all public health programs. John’s public health practice focuses on implementing scalable mental health interventions to diverse communities globally and effecting systems-level change in public health organizations through adaptive leadership. John has led several research projects at academic medical centers like New York University School of Global Public Health and Brown University Center for Digital Health. Originally from the Bay Area, CA, John has lived in New York City since 2021. He loves to travel internationally with a goal of visiting all continents (except Antarctica because he can’t stand the cold).

Our Advisors

  • R.J. Briscione

  • Mark Czubachowski

  • Jeffrey Holman

  • Samir Khanna

  • Farhad Modarai

  • Sonia Sarkar