FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 29, 2025

Contact: Jack Cardinal, jcardinal@communitycatalyst.org

Boston, MA — Community Catalyst, the nation’s leading health justice organization, today announced that Monique S. Patrick, MBA has joined the organization as its new Chief Finance and Strategy Officer (CFSO). As a member of the Executive Team, Monique will be a strategic partner to the CEO and Board, leading a cross-functional team to drive financial strategy and operational growth. She is also the first senior hire under President & CEO Linda Goler Blount, MPH, who recently joined Community Catalyst after a decade of leadership at the Black Women’s Health Imperative.

“We are thrilled to welcome Monique to Community Catalyst as we begin our next strategic planning process,” said Linda Goler Blount, MPH, President & CEO. “Her expertise in financial operations and technology transformation, combined with her deep commitment to equity and public health, will propel our mission forward and strengthen our capacity to meet this moment.”

Patrick brings more than two decades of leadership in financial operations, technology transformation, and strategic resource management across public health, non-profit, and corporate sectors. Most recently, she served as Chief Operating Officer at the CDC Foundation, where she oversaw finance, operations, risk management, compliance, human resources, and emergency response.

She led major enterprise-wide technology transformations—including new ERP platforms, Salesforce, Oracle NetSuite, and ADP—while streamlining procurement and business continuity processes. She also expanded the Foundation’s workforce significantly, recruiting and onboarding more than 3,500 staff to respond to urgent public health crises, including the opioid epidemic and COVID-19.

Her career also includes leadership roles at the Points of Light Foundation, where she managed a $32 million operating budget, and at the American Cancer Society, where she spearheaded high-impact cross-sector partnerships. Earlier in her career, Patrick held management roles at Pepsi and AT&T, where she built a strong foundation in operational excellence and business process improvement.

Patrick’s appointment comes at a pivotal moment, as Community Catalyst prepares to set its next strategic direction and deepen its commitment to a health system rooted in race equity and health justice—one where race, class, or gender no longer determine health outcomes.

Patrick holds a bachelor of arts degree in finance and administration  from Howard University and an MBA from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. She also serves as a national board member of Step Up, where she sits on the finance and audit committee, and has previously served on the boards of the Elaine Clark Center and ROOTS adoption agency.

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About Community Catalyst:

Community Catalyst is a national organization dedicated to building the power of people to create a health system rooted in race equity and health justice, and a society where health is a right for all. We’re an experienced, trusted partner to organizations across the country, a change agent to policymakers at the local, state, and national level, and both an adversary and a collaborator to health systems in our efforts to advance health justice. We partner with local, state and national organizations and leaders to leverage and build power so that people are at the center of important decisions about health and health care, whether they are made by health care executives, in state houses, or on Capitol Hill. Together with partners, we’re building a powerful, united movement with a shared vision of and strategy for a health system accountable to all people. Learn more at www.communitycatalyst.org.