Founder, MLK Health and Wellness Community Development Corporation
Education
B.A. – History, University of California, Los Angeles
Business/Research Background
Ms. Griego’s diverse career encompasses civic leadership, entrepreneurship, government service, corporate and non-profit directorships, and philanthropy.
In 2016, she founded the non-profit MLK Health and Wellness Community Development Corporation focused on the MLK Medical Campus in South Los Angeles. Infrastructure projects include the Jacqueline Avant Children Center that serves over 4,000 children and teens in foster care; and the MLK Behavioral Health Center (renovated King-Drew Hospital).
Her entrepreneurial career includes real estate development and historical renovation of an abandoned 1912 firehouse in downtown Los Angeles into offices and a prominent 136-seat restaurant, Engine Co. No. 28, that she operated for over twenty years. She also developed and operated restaurants and bakeries in Los Angeles; and a fishing lodge in Chama, NM.
Ms. Griego’s government and civic service include Deputy of Mayor of Los Angeles, President/CEO of the LA Community Development Bank; and President/CEO of Rebuild LA (1992 Civil Unrest). In her early career, she was a congressional staffer for the U.S. Senator Alan Cranston (CA) and Congressman Tom Morris (NM) in Washington, D.C. She has also served on several commissions including the LA Community Redevelopment Agency, Cultural Affairs Commission, and the Handicapped Access Commission.
She has served on the boards of directors of Paramount/CBS, Capital Group/American Funds, AECOM, Granite Construction, Southwest Water Company, City National Bank, First Interstate Bank, and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (Los Angeles director). Service on several non-profit boards of directors include the MLK Community Hospital, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles Convention Center and CDTech.
For more than two decades, Ms. Griego has served as a trustee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, California Community Foundation, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, Scripts College and Art Center College of Design. She currently serves on the board of directors of UNM Rainforest Innovations and Innovate ABQ Advisory Board. Ms. Griego is also a trustee of the board of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.