Elena Jenkins BSN, RN currently works as a Program Manager for Missouri Collaboration for Clinical Community Integration, a HRSA-funded Maternal Health Innovation Grant. Elena has had a career-long passion for improving the health of moms & babies and has led both Birth Equity and Perinatal Mental Health Initiatives at her institution, striving to implement strategies to address implicit bias, maternal health disparities, and promote conditions of optimal births for all people. She served as an AIM Clinical Champion in the 2022-2023 cohort and has been integrally involved in the implementation of several the AIM Patient Safety Bundles with multidisciplinary team members at the hospital level. She is an Entrepreneurial MBA student at William Jewell College in the OneDay program.