LEADERSHIP

CREDENTIALS

Priscila Espinosa, from Clinton, Massachusetts, is a 2nd generation Population Health Educator, Coach, Project Manager, Inventor, Herbalist, and Speaker whose emerging Nonprofit, SproutChange, Inc., started as a hashtag in February 2016 to influence a grassroots advocacy movement in consumer education around Alternative Medicine, Organic Agriculture, Sustainability, and Social/Food Justice. 

Today SproutChange has gone from a grassroots movement to a budding Start-up as well as Emerging Nonprofit & Training Center that recently completed a 3-year Hospital-funded project throughout North Central Massachusetts sponsored by UMASS Memorial HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital improving the health outcomes among Aging Adults, Women, People with Disabilities with an 82.7% increase in knowledge using Food as Medicine, Natural Remedies, Herbs, & No-Dig Gardening.

In September 2022 the work of SproutChange was a featured case study at the Congressman Jim McGovern “Food is Medicine Roundtable: regional hearing of The White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, & Health” with US Health & Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, where Priscila presented on the social impact best practices addressing Social Determinants of Health, Health Systems Strengthening, Chronic Diseases, Healthy Aging, and Behavioral Health with SproutChange’s Lifestyle Management Program™ for Anchor Institutions. [1] [2]

In November 2023 Priscila presented her work at the first university of the Americas, the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo in Barahona, Dominican Republic (“UASD - Barahona Campus”) at the “Scientific Research and Technology Conference.”

Priscila has been featured on local TV shows, “Discussing Fitchburg Now” with Sam Squailia, “Daily Breaking” with Mauro Pasquale, “This Is Worcester” with Bill Coleman, and “Exposure with Mosher” with Amy Mosher. 

Additional public speaking engagements for Priscila include speaker at the Smaller American Lawns Today (SALT) Conference: Creating Edible Gardens for People and Pollinators, presenter of Employee Wellness at the YWCA of Central Massachusetts, panelist at New England VegFest, speaker at the NOFA/Mass Summer & Winter Conferences on No-Dig Garden in Your Community Garden, Cultured Vegetables, and presenter on Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants in the Resilient Garden Series, as well as presenter at the Second Annual New Economy Summit held by the Worcester-based Social Venture Collaborative.

Priscila is a graduate of Worcester State University with a degree in Sociology, French Minor, and Concentrations in Spanish and Italian, certified in Lifestyle Coaching in Food as Medicine, Herbs, Massage Therapy, & Organic Farming from Eden Valley Institute, Permaculture Design from Daniel Garcia International, Nonprofit Lobbying & Advocacy from the University of Notre Dame: Mendoza College of Business, and a scholarship awardee for dual MBA/MS degree in Human Factors in Information Design from Bentley University.                  

BUSINESS INCUBATORS & FELLOWSHIPS

• Business Fellow at Worcester Idea Lab in partnership with the City of Worcester and the Worcester State University Entrepreneurship Program

• STEM Business Fellow at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Business Development Lab

• WPI/MIT I-Corps Program Incubator sponsored by the National Science Foundation

[1] VIDEO “Highlight Moments: ‘Food as Medicine Roundtable’ with Host Congressman Jim McGovern” on YouTube

[2] PRESENTATION “SproutChange Lifestyle Management Program™”