Envision SRH Team
Patty Cason, RN, MS, FNP-BC, President, Envision SRH
Patty Cason is a family nurse practitioner, trainer, and educator with a specialty in sexual and reproductive health. She has practiced for over 40 years in a wide variety of clinical and academic settings and is an Assistant Clinical Professor and guest lecturer at the UCLA School of Nursing. Her goal is centering patients with a sex-positive, trauma-informed, anti-racist lens. Patty is the lead editor for the 22nd Edition of Contraceptive Technology. She developed the PATH framework and ASA Cycles for person-centered communications and counseling. Patty serves on the Board of directors for the American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology (ASCCP), the National Medical Committee for Planned Parenthood Federation of America (NMC) and work groups revising the Quality Family Planning guidelines (QFP) for the Office of Population Affairs, and the CDC Sexually Transmitted infection Treatment Guidelines. Patty is a contracted consultant to training agencies, non-profits, and state departments of health across the United States. Other publications include research and opinion pieces in peer reviewed journals and nationally utilized instructional videos, on-line learning courses, clinical protocols, job aids, and manuals.
Training Team
Joely Pritzker, MS, FNP-BC
Joely Pritzker is a Family Nurse Practitioner who specializes in reproductive and sexual health. She has worked in a variety of clinical settings and currently practices at a Federally Qualified Health Center. In addition to her clinical work, she is a reproductive and sexual health consultant and trainer, as well as passionate advocate for reproductive justice. She leads trainings for the National Clinical Training Center for Family Planning and other organizations on client-centered counseling, LARC placement and contraceptive basics. Joely is dedicated to helping providers, medical assistants and other support staff develop their counseling skills and clinical knowledge.
Michael S. Policar, MD, MPH
Michael Policar, MD, MPH, is Professor Emeritus of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine. Since 2015, he has been the Clinical Fellow for the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA). He is advisor to the CA State Office of Family Planning on clinical issues related to the Family PACT Program. Dr. Policar is a widely known national speaker and trainer. He is and editor and senior author of the textbook Contraceptive Technology (16th-21st editions). He has served on expert advisory panels of the Centers for Disease Control that resulted in the publication of the CDC Medical Eligibility Criteria (MEC) for Contraceptive Use (2016), the CDC Selected Practice Recommendations (SPR) for Contraceptive Use (2016), and Providing Quality Family Planning Services: Recommendations of CDC and the U.S. Office of Population Affairs (2014). Dr. Policar has received numerous awards for ObGyn resident teaching, including a CREOG National Faculty Award in 2011.
Angélica Perez, BA
Angélica is a Project Specialist with the American Academy of Pediatrics San Diego Chapter. She provides training and quality assurance for the network of Home Visiting Programs under Healthy Families San Diego County; and supports the development and implementation of the Healthy Families America home visiting model. Angélica was previously a Family Support Specialist where she was a PATH site champion and delivered services utilizing the PATH framework. With over 8 years of direct service experience working with families in clinical and community settings, she has developed a pedagogy that is relationship based, rooted in trauma informed care and cultural humility. Angélica received her BA in Sociology with a focus in social inequalities and Education Studies Minor from UCSD. She is passionate about reproductive justice; and strives to contribute to spaces committed to community healing and repair.
Media Team
Julie Hutchinson
Julie Hutchinson has worked in the field of casting for over 25 years. Most recently, she was Senior Vice President of Casting at Universal Pictures. Prior to that she was Vice President of Casting at 20th Century Fox and Director of Casting at CBS. Julie got her start in casting in New York City working in film, commercials and theater. Julie currently resides in Los Angeles.
Emilia Mendieta
Hailing from Wichita, Kansas by the way of Quito, Ecuador, Emilia Mendieta Córdova is an Ecuadorian-American Cinematographer and filmmaker with a passion for bold visual storytelling. She is a graduate of Vassar College and the AFI Conservatory. Emilia is a three-time Women in Media Altitude Awards semi-finalist, an 2023-24 ASC Vision Mentee and a 2023 WIF Cinematography Fellow. Emilia has lensed award-winning films that have screened at LALIFF, LA Shorts, LAIFF, Cinequest, and CineGear. Among her notable collaborations are TRENDING (an LFI Inclusion Fellowship film), Mark S. Allen’s feature directing debut AMY’S F-IT LIST, and 15+ music videos with Charley Young.
Emilia is also an educator - guest lecturing at AFI, USFQ, UDLA, UNO and CSUN. She previously worked at AFI where she helped run the Visual Essay Program and the Cinematography Intensive for Women. She is also a mentor for the Latino Film Institute’s Youth Cinema Project. Emilia is a founder of the Ecuadorian Creative Collective and an active member of the ICF⁺C where she is one of the hosts of The ICF⁺C’s Podcast. She is multilingual (English, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese), a classically-trained cellist, amateur Astrophotographer, culinary arts enthusiast, and a massive Star Wars fan.