Adrienne Faxio is a research associate III with a Bachelor’s degree in Cultural Anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

She honed her social science research skills at the University of California, San Francisco’s Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies and Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) where she worked for nearly 15 years managing evaluation and research projects addressing adolescent health, school health services, and behavioral and reproductive health. Her interests center on addressing health disparities and increasing access to care for the underserved.