
Mark Anthony Paredes
As a teacher, a healthcare advocate with over fifteen years of experience working in the non-profit field, Mark has a unique perspective and commitment to helping serve our community. He started his professional career working with immigrant Cambodian youth in Los Angeles creating tutoring programs to address their unique needs and challenges to help them succeed and flourish in school. He helped create partnerships between schools and healthcare providers to establish school-based health centers in Orange County. As the former program manager for Healthy Smiles for Kids of Orange County, he led an outreach team that educated and screened over 30,000 children annually throughout Orange County. Currently he works for Blue Shield of California as an outreach manager advocating and serving the community by building relationships with non-profits, school districts, the small business community and government agencies to advance healthcare access for all Californians.
He has proven himself as a champion representing the community at the local and statewide level. As a Planning Commissioner for the City of Garden Grove he promoted safer streets for bikers and pedestrians and pushed for responsible business and community growth. He serves on the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) Citizen Advisory Committee serving as a liaison between the public and OCTA examining traffic solutions and providing input on various transportation studies. As a healthcare advocate he has spoken on behalf of families and children fighting to protect healthcare funding and access to needed care and services.
