Portia Jones

Regional Manager, Health Equity & EID | Kaiser Permanente

“My uncle Michael was a teenager when he first experienced homelessness and began his long, arduous suffering from drug addiction. He explains how broken systems failed to ease his suffering and, in many ways, contributed to it. His testimony is one of the strongest motivations for my passion to end homelessness.”

Portia Jones is a Community Health Manager for Kaiser Permanente serving the San Gabriel Valley service area and surrounding region. In this role she leads the development, implementation, and management of local and regional Community Health strategies, programs, and plans in order to enhance the health and flourishing of the communities she serves. Portia boasts a robust career in the public health sector where she has held a variety of leadership roles overseeing strategic partnerships with health systems, marketing and development, and supporting patient services in communities throughout Southern California, Arizona, and Nevada. Portia earned her B.S. with honors in Business Administration and Marketing, and holds an MBA from Woodbury University in Burbank, CA.