Harold Cruz Sarmiento graduated from the UST College of Nursing Class of 2001. He is also a double alumnus of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). Harold received his MSN, Adult-Gerontology Primary NP degree in 2016 and his DNP degree in 2022, both from UCLA. He is passionate about serving the marginalized LGBTQ+ community. Harold received an award for Outstanding DNP Project for Improving Health in an Underserved Population in 2022 at UCLA. He is an Infectious Disease NP and HIV Specialist at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center (KP LAMC). He’s been running the Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) program at KP LAMC for over six years, where he serves LGBTQ+ patients at risk for HIV and STIs in Los Angeles. He is also a wound care clinician at The Wound Pros. Harold is also a lecturer and assistant clinical professor for the APRN program at UCLA.

A proud Thomasian, Leilanie graduated from UST in 1994. She is currently the Director of Nursing Services at the Sutter Center for Psychiatry, overseeing the nursing and behavioral health programs. Before this role, she was the Magnet Program Director and Manager of Nursing Education and Performance Improvement at UCLA Neuropsychiatric Hospital, where she led the hospital to achieve its first Magnet designation, making it one of the first free-standing psychiatric facilities in California to do so.