Dr. Alicia Garcia-Cisneros is a Doctor of Nursing Practice, Nurse Executive, and Certified Caritas Coach serving as Chief Nurse Executive at Valley State Prison within California Correctional Health Care Services (CCHCS). Born to Hispanic migrant agricultural workers, she climbed from Certified Nursing Assistant to the highest levels of nursing leadership over two decades, championing caring science, peer support programs, and staff wellness inside California's correctional health system.
Misty R. Jones is the president and CEO of Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley, a Pleasanton-based hospital affiliated with Stanford Medicine. A nurse-turned-operator with an MSN and MBA, she stepped in on June 9, 2025, after two decades running academic medical centers in the Midwest, and is now steering a 66,000-square-foot east wing expansion that will more than double the emergency department.