Cynthia Carter-Perrilliat is Executive Director and Co-Founder of the AC Care Alliance Collaborative (ACCA). Founded in the African-American faith community, ACCA’s Advanced Illness Care Program is a community based, person-centered, care navigation intervention serving individuals with chronic, serious, and advanced illness and their caregivers, in partnership with health, faith, academic and community-based organizations, providing services in six counties in Northern and Southern California. Carter-Perrilliat has over 25 years of experience as a change agent in healthcare, hospice and palliative care education, marketing and communications, biotechnologies and community organizations. Over the last 15 years, she has focused on end-of-life care program development and educational training in the African-American, Latinx, and Asian communities. As part of VITAS Healthcare, she established a targeted compassionate care approach to communities of color, which was adopted and replicated across the organization’s multi-state footprint. She also served as faculty member of the Duke University APPEAL program, a Palliative Care Educational Curriculum for African Americans at the end of life.
