JESSE M. SORIANO, SR., MA, MS, has held state and university positions as Director of
Migrant/Bilingual Education (Michigan), Office of Ethnic Affairs (Utah), and as Director, United
States Office of Bilingual Education in the United States Department of Education. When he
returned to Michigan in 2020 he joined the Lansing Latino Health Alliance in which he currently
serves as President. He believes that LLHA’s impact has been to make the region’s health
services aware and more responsive to the health needs of the local Latino community, and he
envisions LLHA continuing and expanding its efforts in improving the health services to the
region’s Latino and minority communities.