Our Team
Staff
Jenilee Policarpio
Program Coordinator
Jenilee is a Filipina born in Agana Heights, Guam. She is the daughter of two health workers and grew up in various parts of Western Washington. With a background in working in local non-profits and grassroots organizations, Jenilee has worked with immigrant and refugee families across King County for the last 14 years. She spent a majority of those years focusing on South Seattle neighborhoods.
After witnessing the health disparities during a NAFCON medical mission to the Philippines in 2018, she was determined to continue advocating for health and wellness initiatives for Filipinos at home and abroad. She believes it is especially important to create and pass initiatives that are developed and led by communities most impacted by health disparities - namely working class immigrant and migrant populations.
Jenilee currently serves as a staff person for the National Alliance for Filipino Concerns and the Program Coordinator for the Filipino Community Health Board.
Board of Directors
Nadine Guyo, BSN
President
Nadine Guyo is a founding member of the Filipino Community Health Board (FCHB) of King County. As a nurse, her passion is to serve the community through the understanding that holistic care of a person is not separate from the social conditions that adversely affect health and perpetuate causes of disease. To be concerned of people’s health is to also participate in social change.
Dr. Cecille Corsilles-Sy, Assistant Professor at the School of Occupational Therapy
Board Member
Dr. Corsilles-Sy is an Assistant Professor in the School of Occupational Therapy. Her doctoral work includes a focus on the role of culture and community in the overall experience of health and wellbeing. Her work and research include supporting mental health of migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong, adherence to lifestyle changes among diabetics in Tondo, Manila, increasing awareness of domestic violence among Aeta People of Pampanga, and health promotion in Seattle’s Beacon Hill area through a partnership with a faith community. Her clinical expertise is in neurorehabilitation in a Level I Trauma Center.
Dr. Corsilles-Sy believes that health is a basic human right and the pursuit of health includes pursuing sociopolitical and socioeconomic conditions to ensure access to health services for all. For the Filipino community, this means advocating for changes that would positively impact our local and diasporic communities.
Dr. Edwin Carlos, Assistant Professor of School Psychology
Board Member
Edwin Carlos is an Assistant Professor in School Psychology at the College of Education at Seattle University. Edwin earned his doctoral degree in School Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley and joined the Seattle University faculty in 2025. He also completed his Bachelor’s of Arts with Honors in Psychology and a minor in Education at Stanford University in 2020.
Edwin’s dissertation research was on Filipino and Asian American mental health and cultural identity attitudes. His dissertation, titled “More than Colonialism: Expanding Theories of Filipino American Cultural Identity,” examined Filipino American cultural identify attitudes using frameworks inspired by Black racial identity theories. Edwin has presented his work on Filipino and Asian American mental health and cultural identity at state and national conferences such as the American Psychological Association, the National Association of School Psychologists, and the Association for Asian American Studies.
Edwin works part-time as a psychology resident at Mercer Island Therapy. He grew up in Hawaii and Washington state and went to high school in Bellevue, Washington. Edwin is also an avid video game, tennis, and basketball player.