Marisel Losa
Healthcare Leader. Community Strategist. Trusted Advisor.
Marisel Losa is a bilingual Latina leader who has spent her career working alongside Hispanic and other historically underserved communities to close gaps in health, access, and opportunity. She helps mission-driven organizations turn complex community challenges into funded, measurable, and sustainable results.
For more than 30 years, Marisel has led nonprofits, statewide coalitions, and public health initiatives across Florida and South Carolina. Much of her work has been rooted in communities where language, culture, and trust matter just as much as policy and data. She understands how decisions are made at executive and system levels and works to ensure underrepresented populations are never treated as an afterthought.
She has served as a CEO, founder, coalition builder, and legislative strategist, helping organizations secure recurring funding, design culturally responsive programs, align cross-sector partners, and build systems that last. Marisel also led the development of community data platforms such as Miami Matters and Greenwood Counts to provide partners with shared visibility into community conditions and measurable progress.
Through Community Imperatives, Marisel provides fractional leadership and strategic guidance to organizations that need senior-level expertise without adding permanent overhead. Whether strengthening governance, guiding statewide initiatives, aligning partners, securing funding, or translating data into stories funders understand, her focus remains consistent: elevate community voice, protect equity, and deliver results that change lives.
A Legacy of Impact
Marisel Losa brings a proven record of securing multi-million-dollar funding, leading complex collaborations, and building systems that expand healthcare access and improve community outcomes. Today, she helps organizations translate that experience into practical strategies that strengthen operations, increase funding readiness, and deliver measurable results.
As founder of the Florida Association of Free and Charitable Clinics, Marisel united providers statewide to serve uninsured Floridians and secured $9.5 million in recurring state funding, creating a lasting foundation for vulnerable communities.
She later served as President and CEO of the Health Council of South Florida, where she guided regional health initiatives, informed policy decisions, and aligned cross-sector partners around data-driven solutions.
Her leadership has been recognized through several major honors, including the March of Dimes Humanitarian of the Year Award, Hispanic Women of Distinction Charity Award, Women That Shine Award from the League of Women Voters, and the South Florida Healthcare Executive Forum Community Service Award.
Marisel also led the development of community data platforms such as Miami Matters and Greenwood Counts, strengthening transparency, accountability, and collaboration across sectors.
Her legacy reflects steady leadership grounded in equity, community voice, and results that make a lasting difference.
You’re Leading Important Community Work. We Help You Move It Forward.
Health systems, nonprofits, and coalitions serving Hispanic and other historically underserved communities are carrying complex challenges. Fragmented systems. Competing priorities. Limited resources. High expectations from funders and communities alike.
Community Imperatives provides experienced, fractional leadership to help you bring clarity, align partners, and turn strategy into measurable impact.
Executive Guidance When and Where You Need It
Led by Marisel Losa, Community Imperatives brings more than three decades of executive experience across healthcare administration, public health, and nonprofit systems, paired with lived experience as a bilingual Latina leader.
As a fractional partner, Marisel works alongside your leadership and teams to strengthen strategy, stabilize initiatives, and build capacity without adding permanent overhead.
You remain the driver. We help guide the way.
How We Support Your Work
- Fractional executive and strategic leadership
- Community and coalition alignment
- Culture-centered program design
- Funding and grant strategy
- Data-informed planning and impact tracking
- Systems strengthening for organizations serving Hispanic and minority communities
Real-World Experience. Community-Centered Results.
From neighborhood clinics to statewide systems, Community Imperatives has helped organizations build sustainable infrastructure, secure funding, align stakeholders, and deliver services that communities trust and funders support.
Because meaningful work deserves experienced guidance and a clearer path forward.
How We Work
Embedded, Not Distant
We work inside your organization, alongside your leadership and teams, not as outside observers.
Culture-Centered by Design
Language, culture, and lived experience shape every strategy from the start.
Bilingual Leadership
Fluent in English and Spanish, we help bridge communication gaps and strengthen trust.
Focused on Outcomes
Clarity leads to alignment. Alignment leads to measurable results.
Who We Serve
Health systems and clinics
Nonprofits and community-based organizations
Coalitions and collaborative initiatives
Public and population health efforts
Funders seeking strong implementation partners
Entrepreneurs
Especially organizations that need senior-level guidance without adding permanent overhead.
Our Core Beliefs
Co-Creation
We believe the best solutions emerge from collaboration, bringing together diverse perspectives to drive meaningful impact.
Adaptability
We stay agile and responsive, evolving with the needs of our clients and the changing landscape.
Client-Centered
Our clients are at the heart of everything we do, we listen, tailor solutions, and strive to exceed expectations.
Innovation
We embrace creativity and fresh thinking to solve complete challenges with dynamic, forward-looking strategies.