Accountability Is Not a Feature —
It's Our Founding Team.
Enterprise health systems and institutional partners require more than advanced software—they invest in the human governance that anchors it. Here is the interconnected ecosystem of experts behind every clinical and technological decision.
"Designing AI that captures, structures, escalates, and documents trusted community insight before clinical review — not AI that decides."
Our Governing Framework
Interconnectedness
Every node — beauty professional, caregiver, AI agent, clinician — influences the others. Removing any one weakens the whole system.
Tacit Knowledge
We reject the GOFAI assumption that human health can be reduced to abstract data. Our team carries the lived, felt reality of community health.
Emergence
Better health equity comes from the interactions between our diverse team — not from any individual part. The collective result is greater than the sum.
Human Governance
AI at C.E.N.T.S is a tool, never an authority. Every signal passes through an accountable human before it reaches a clinical team.
The Ecosystem
Every Node Matters
Rather than a corporate hierarchy, we map our team as the living ecosystem it actually is — each layer dependent on and strengthening the others.
Leadership & Strategy
Visionary leaders driving the strategic direction, community partnerships, and mission of C.E.N.T.S Health Equity Navigator.
Myeshia Jefferson
Founder & CEO | Head of AI Development
Myeshia Jefferson is a Licensed Advanced Nail Technician (20+ years), Certified Health & Wellness Coach, and TEDx Speaker ("When Beauty Saved My Life," 2025). She is the Founder & CEO of Beauty Makes Cents LLC and the creator of the C.E.N.T.S Method™ and C.E.N.T.S Health Equity Navigator — an AI-powered platform designed to close the gap between community-level health signals and clinical intervention.
Delane Sims
Community Works Partner
Delane Sims is a seasoned community leader and founder of DNNC Steps to Success and Senior Moment Connections. With decades of hands-on experience in elder-care outreach and underserved population advocacy, Delane bridges the gap between community need and structured support systems.
Technology & Data
The engineers, architects, and analysts who build and power the C.E.N.T.S platform — from AI systems to data intelligence.
Whelma Grace Celemin
Technical Lead & AI Systems Architect
Whelma Grace Celemin is the Technical Lead & AI Systems Architect behind the CENTS platform. She built the full CENTS website and Agentic AI systems from scratch, collaborating directly with Founder Myeshia Jefferson on AI product strategy.
Srilekha Budithi
Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
Srilekha Budithi is a Business Analytics graduate student at CSU East Bay with a background in quality compliance and biotechnology. She brings expertise in Power BI dashboards, Six Sigma, and predictive analytics to the CENTS platform.
Marketing & Brand
Storytellers and strategists who connect C.E.N.T.S to the communities it serves through data-driven outreach and brand leadership.
Srividya Peri
Marketing & Brand Strategy
Srividya Peri is the Chief Marketing Officer of CENTS and a Marketing Analytics graduate student at CSU East Bay. She brings data-driven storytelling, SEO expertise, and community outreach strategy to the CENTS brand.
Clinical Governance
Board-certified physicians and specialists who serve as the final clinical authority — ensuring every AI signal is medically sound before it reaches a care team.
Dr. Janelle Green
Board-Certified Podiatrist & Founder, Dismantling Diabetes™️
Dr. Janelle Green is a board-certified podiatrist, educator, and founder of Dismantling Diabetes™️, a prevention-focused metabolic health platform designed to help individuals with type 2 diabetes reduce complications, prevent amputations, and improve long-term health outcomes through lifestyle-based intervention, health literacy, and behavior change.
Dr. Michael Green
MD — Hematology & Medical Oncology, TPMG
Dr. Michael Green is a physician with The Permanente Medical Group (TPMG), specializing in Malignant Hematology with a focus on multiple myeloma and sickle cell disease. He serves as Co-Lead of the Northern California Regional TPMG Plasma Cell Disorders Committee and TPMG Regional Lead for Equity, Inclusion & Diversity in Adult Hematology and Oncology.
How We Work Together
The Collaboration Loop
A continuous cycle where community trust meets machine intelligence, all under strict clinical governance. No single layer operates alone.
01 — Observe
Community Insight
Wellness Sentinels capture tacit health signals during trusted community interactions — before they ever reach a clinic.
Data Flow
02 — Structure
AI Agent Synthesis
AI engineers and clinical advisors co-design the logic that structures, escalates, and documents every community signal.
Handoff
03 — Decide
Clinical Governance
Human clinicians hold final authority. Every AI-escalated signal requires a clinician's review before any intervention.
"Designing AI that captures, structures, escalates, and documents trusted community insight before clinical review — not AI that decides."
Emergence in Action
A medical nail technician spots peripheral neuropathy. An AI agent synthesizes the signal. A clinician intervenes before amputation. No single person or technology achieved this alone — it emerged from the interactions of our entire ecosystem.
"Systems thinking helps us see interdependence, feedback loops, and emergent behaviors that go beyond linear cause-and-effect."
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