Staff
Shelisa Howard-Martinez
Born in Wilmington, NC, Shelisa has lived in Durham for more than 30 years. She is honored to be Aging Well Durham’s first Executive Director.
Shelisa has more than 25 years of community health and nonprofit experience. This includes:
Developing access to care networks in Eastern North Carolina.
Facilitating state and national peer networks for safety net providers, caregivers and public health professionals.
Leading Durham-based teams of Community Health Workers that provided COVID-19 education, resource navigation, testing and vaccine access from 2020-2023.
Shelisa is a Jim Bernstein Community Health Leadership Fellow and a member of the North Carolina Institute of Medicine. She earned a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from UNC- Chapel Hill, a master’s in public administration from North Carolina Central University and a graduate certificate in Ethnic and Rural Health Disparities from East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine.