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Liza M. Rodríguez, Ph.D.
Program Director
Liza has led and coordinated non-profit capacity-building projects for organizations of all sizes. She has over ten years of experience in non-profit management; marketing and communications; cultural competency assessment, planning, and training; program design and evaluation; and qualitative data collection and analysis.
Prior to PHMC, Liza was the Communications Director for Philadelphia’s Department of Human Services, where she led the planning and implementation of public awareness efforts on the prevention of child abuse and juvenile delinquency, parenting supports, and on the recruitment of adoptive families for Philadelphia’s most vulnerable children. She also spearheaded the development of a social service search engine for the City of Philadelphia – www.phillysos.org.
Liza began her career in public service as a second grade teacher in the South Bronx, NY, with Teach for America. She has a B.A. in Latin American and African Studies from Duke University, an M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Ph.D. in Urban Education from Temple University. Her dissertation research focused on Latino/a immigrant engagement with local grassroots and civic institutions. She has written Op-Ed pieces for The Philadelphia Inquirer on Latino community issues and published the essay “Raising our family at the cultural crossroads” in the 2005 Chicken Soup for the Latino Soul: Celebrating La Comunidad Hispana (Deerfield, FL: Health Communications Inc.).
Amy Friedlander, M.B.A.
Co-Director
Amy Friedlander has a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from New York University and a Bachelor’s of Arts Degree from the University of Virginia. Amy is a member of Administration at PHMC, and works collaboratively with many members of PHMC and affiliate staff in order to ensure that operational and administrative functions are fully supporting client services. Currently, Amy is the PHMC liaison to and a Board member of the PHMC affiliate La Comunidad Hispana. She also leads PHMC’s work on the Children’s Investment Strategy, the DHS Parenting Collaborative, and the DHS Emergency and PBC Aftercare Funds. Amy is responsible for PHMC’s technical assistance services, and assists with program development throughout the agency. Amy first joined PHMC in 1989; left for the west coast in 1997; and returned to the region and to PHMC in 2000.
Tonya Clemon
Program Officer
Tonya Clemon is a Program Officer with PHMC. Although new to the nonprofit arena, Ms. Clemon has a substantial amount of experience with account management, human resources, payroll, training and development. Additionally, Ms. Clemon taught seventh grade at a local archdiocesan school. Ms. Clemon obtained her Bachelors Degree in English from Mansfield University of Pennsylvania.
Francine Axler
Research Director
Francine Axler is the Project Director for Philadelphia Health Management Corporation's Community Health Data Base, a large scale data collection project in Southeastern Pennsylvania and Research Director for ACE Philadelphia. She has worked in public health for more than fifteen years and has worked with community based data and evaluation during this time.
Aaliyah Solomon, A.A., B.A.
Research Assistant
Aaliyah J. Solomon, A. A., B.A has been at PHMC for over two years and serves as a Research Assistant for the Aids Collaborative for Excellence (ACE) in Philadelphia. In addition to ACE Philadelphia she has assisted with formative, process, and outcome evaluations of federally funded, community-based projects including an alcohol, tobacco, and drug cessation project, multi-modal post-traumatic stress disorder intervention program aimed at refugee children, and the Healthy Start initiative providing community-based maternal and child health programs. Mrs. Solomon has experience in primary data collection, conducting key informant interviews, focus groups, participant observations, and data entry and cleaning, assisting with data analysis and report preparation. Mrs. Solomon holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology and Political Science from Temple University.
