Marc Long built his path into critical care nursing without a family roadmap into healthcare. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 2020 and has since developed a clinical profile at the highest-acuity end of inpatient care; managing patients through respiratory failure, acute stroke, traumatic brain injury, and cardiogenic shock across surgical trauma, transplant, and neuroscience ICU settings. 

A consistent investment matches his clinical depth in education: ensuring that patients, families, and colleagues understand what is happening and why. That same orientation is what he brings to MIHPE. As a Subject Matter Expert, Marc supports educators in health professions programs by grounding curriculum and instruction in what critical care nursing actually looks like, closing the gap between classroom preparation and clinical reality, so that the professionals those programs produce are truly ready.

Daniela M. Hernandez is a first-generation college graduate, immigrant, and Harvard-trained education leader whose career has been built at the intersection of systems-level strategy and community-centered practice. She holds a Master of Education in Educational Leadership, Organization, and Entrepreneurship from Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies with a Minor in Spanish from California State University, San Bernardino. A proud transfer student who began at community college, Daniela learned to advocate for herself and navigate higher education systems without a roadmap — an experience that continues to shape her commitment to community engagement and equitable access. At Harvard, she institutionalized the Harvard-wide Latino Graduation — coordinating across multiple schools to create a lasting cultural tradition, and through collaboration and strategic outreach secured U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona as keynote speaker.

Her professional record reflects the same scale and intentionality. At the California Association for Bilingual Education, she expanded a statewide contract portfolio from 20 to 80 institutional partnerships, sustained approximately 80% of that portfolio through COVID-19, co-developed bilingual LCAP-aligned family engagement curriculum delivered across California, and supervised 18 Parent Specialist Facilitators statewide. Her expertise spans strategic partnership development, program design and evaluation, and culturally responsive bilingual facilitation — consistently centering multilingual families and first-generation students not as recipients of programming, but as informed participants in the systems meant to serve them.

Daniela joins MIHPE because she understands firsthand what is at stake when students and families lack access to information, representation, and pathways into professional careers. That lived context — combined with her institutional experience — is what she brings to MIHPE’s outreach and pipeline mission.