Shelly Masur, MPH
Executive Director

Shelly Masur holds a Master’s Degree on Public Health and has over 15 years of experience in adolescent health and youth services. She joins Teen Talk Sexuality Education as its Executive Director after serving as the as Director of Community Youth Development Programs at the John W. Gardner Center for Youth & Their Communities at Stanford. Prior to the Gardner Center, Shelly was the Senior Director of After School Programs for Girls Inc. of Alameda County. She has also been a consultant for the multiple non-profit and public agency clients, including the ACLU of Northern California and the California Coalition for Reproductive Freedom, where she worked on issues around adolescent reproductive health and family communication. Shelly was also the director of the Adolescent Health Collaborative (AHC), a public-private partnership working to improve the health and well-being of teens in California. Previously Shelly was the Associate Director of this organization where she focused on sexuality education, youth advocacy, and teen pregnancy prevention.

Shelly is an elected trustee of the Redwood City School District. In that capacity, she served on the San Mateo County Childhood Obesity Taskforce (now Get Healthy San Mateo) as the co-Chair of the School Wellness Policy Group, as well as on the Advisory Council. Shelly is a member of the California School Board Association’s School Health Advisory Council and a delegate to that organization. She also sat on the Board of Directors of the Society for Public Health Educators, has presented at numerous conferences, and served as a reviewer for two peer-reviewed journals.

Perryn Rowland
Program Director

Perryn Rowland has worked in health education and with young people for 25 years. At TTSE, she teaches Teen Talk, Plain Talk and helps facilitate the Teen Parent Panel. She also designed and taught a Puberty Education curriculum in East Palo Alto. Perryn has attended hundreds of births as a certified doula and childbirth educator and has worked at Planned Parenthood, Kaiser Permanente, Blossom Birth Services and the Palo Alto Medical Foundation. She graduated from Wesleyan University and attended La Universidad Catolica de Lima, Peru. Perryn particularly enjoys teaching Spanish-speaking youth and their parents. She has a wonderfully supportive husband and three very patient sons.

Natalie Flotilde
Health Educator

Natalie Flotilde is a Health Educator with three years in sexual health.  She graduated in 2009 with a B.A. in Psychology from UC Merced and has worked with Planned Parenthood. She is passionate about working with youth, especially at-risk and pregnant or parenting teens.  From her experience in teaching sexual health topics, Natalie’s future plans are to pursue a Master’s in Global Public Health or earn a teaching credential.  Natalie enjoys being outdoors with her partner Everett and dog Lilo.

Jackie Samoya
Health Educator/Teen Parent Panel Coordinator

Jackie graduated from San Francisco State in the Spring of 2011 with a B.S degree in Health Education. She has always been interested in working with youth especially high-risk youth, since she grew up in a high-risk neighborhood.  After interning at TTSE during the 2010-2011 school year, Jackie discovered her passion of working with youth. She wants to see youth succeed to their full potential and is excited to be working with TTSE this year as the Teen Parent Panel Coordinator and Health Educator. After gaining experience out in the work-field Jackie plans to pursue a Masters in Public Health.

Brigitte Sanchez
Teen Success Coordinator

Brigitte Sanchez is our Teen Success Coordinator. She is responsible for the implementation and facilitation of the Teen Success Program in San Mateo County. Brigitte holds an American Studies B.A. and Education Minor from U.C. Berkeley. Prior to coming to Teen Talk Sexuality Education, Brigitte has over 9 years of experience working with at-risk and pregnant and/or parenting teens specifically with Planned Parenthood’s Teen Success program and the Adolescent Family Life/Cal-Learn Programs. In addition, she is a community activist and played a key role in developing Santa Clara County’s CalWORKs pilot ipod distance learning program. In her spare time, Brigitte enjoys cooking, traveling, baseball, and spending time with her goddaughter.

Arti Raman
Teen Success Co-Faciliator

Arti is a senior at San Francisco State University, completing her bachelors in Health Education with an emphasis on community. She applied for the intern position at Teen Talk Sexuality Education because she is interested in working with the population TTSE serves  and  believes in the overall mission to provide comprehensive sex education and prevent teen pregnancy.

Merav Barr Grindlinger
Health Education Consultant

Merav Barr Grindlinger received her MPH from the University of Michigan where she coordinated the school’s Safer Sex Peer Education program. After working in the American Red Cross, Office of HIV/AIDS Education, she moved to Israel where she joined the Maternal and Child Health Division in the Israeli Ministry of Health conducting field research on breast feeding policy/practice. Today Merav enjoys California living with her husband and three children.

La Rhonda Crosby-Johnson
Health Education Consultant

La Rhonda Crosby-Johnson, CEO of BARUTI Enterprises, trainer, educational program consultant, health educator, author and certified integral (life) coach has been working in the field of health and family life education, reproductive and women’s  health care and adolescent pregnancy prevention programs for over 25 years. She brings to the field a wealth of experience in agency and community collaboration, client services, counseling, staff development and public speaking.

Jessica Bowen Bazyl, MPH, MCHES
Teacher Training Consultant

Jessica Bowen Bazyl, MPH, MCHES, is a Health Educator who has spent much of her career focusing on adolescent health, sexual health, and comprehensive sexuality education.  She has worked for Planned Parenthood, the American Lung Association, and the California Family Health Council, as well as Teen Talk Sexuality Education.  She has also been a Researcher and Program Coordinator at UCSF and SFSU’s Center for Research on Gender and Sexuality.  She lives with her husband in San Mateo County and looks forward to starting a family.

Jillian Mazloum
Administrative Assistant

Jillian Mazloum is our Administrative Assistant whom, while employed at Teen Talk Sexuality Education; is also working towards obtaining a degree in Psychology holding a great passion for Health, Social and Behavioral Sciences as well. Her goal is to become a counselor/educator to teens and young adults in the community, and to potentially work in local high schools or health care systems to provide assistance and proper care to under-privileged or low income families. She loves to help people and does all she can to assist the rest of the staff in any way possible.