Isha Weerasinghe
Isha Weerasinghe is a senior policy analyst focused on mental health and sits in CLASP’s youth team. She works on how CLASP’s issue areas impact individuals’ well-being, with a specific focus on youth, young adults, and birthing persons. Ms. Weerasinghe previously worked as the Director of Policy and Advocacy at the Association for Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO), a community health center advocacy organization. Over more than a decade, Isha has led a number of local and national coalitions and provided policy guidance nationally, in health access and equity. Ms. Weerasinghe conducted and managed community based participatory research, and local and state policy advocacy in her work at New York University’s Center for the Study of Asian American Health (CSAAH), working within New York City and New York state. Isha has a bachelor’s in arts degree in biology from Bryn Mawr College, and a master’s in science degree in health policy and demography from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Along with 9to5, Ms. Weerasinghe is a board member of Fihandra Akoma Ntoaso, an organization providing positive youth development to underrepresented youth in foster care in her city of Washington, D.C., on the ancestral lands of the Anacostans or Nacotchtank.
