Latinas In Nursing

Dra. Tina Loarte-Rodriguez is a nurse executive, workforce architect, and systems strategist reshaping the future of healthcare talent, leadership, and equity at scale. She serves as Executive Director of the Connecticut Center for Nursing Workforce, leading statewide workforce modernization, redesigning clinical education infrastructure, and aligning academia, practice, and policy to secure a sustainable nursing pipeline for the next generation.

A Pozen-Commonwealth Fund Fellow in Health Equity Leadership at the Yale School of Management, she is completing her Executive MBA while advancing cross-sector solutions at the intersection of workforce economics, policy design, and organizational transformation.

A first-generation college graduate of Cornell University, University of Connecticut, and Quinnipiac University, Dra. Loarte-Rodriguez is an Afro-Latina Boricua from the Bronx who builds institutions, platforms, and partnerships designed to outlast individual leadership and measurably improve health outcomes, workforce mobility, and economic access across communities.