Meet the team!

  • Founder & CEO

    Dr. Ann Peralta (she/her) has spent her career dedicated to empowered decision-making. Dr. Peralta has an MPH in Maternal and Child Health and a DrPH in Management, Leadership, and Policy from Boston University’s School of Public Health. She has worked in maternal, adolescent, and child health for over 15 years and taught classes in the MPH programs at Boston University and Tufts University. Before focusing on Partner to Decide full-time Dr. Peralta served as the Director of the Pregnancy, Infancy, and Early Childhood Division at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health from 2022-2023. Prior to that she worked at Peer Health Exchange for 10 years, improving and growing their national adolescent health education program, most recently as their Vice President of Partnerships. Before that she led programming at Fitness Forward, a non-profit dedicated to childhood obesity prevention, and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Bolivia. She grew passionate about person-centered decision-making after she was pregnant with her first child and faced the decision herself of if and when to have induction of labor. Dr. Peralta can be reached at aperalta@partnertodecide.org.

  • Clinical Advisor

    Kari Radoff (she/her) is passionate about supporting women and pregnant people to make informed choices for themselves during pregnancy, labor, birth, and the postpartum period. Kari is a Certified Nurse-Midwife, Associate Director of Midwifery Services at Boston Medical Center, and Assistant Professor at the Boston University School of Medicine. She has a Masters of Science in Nursing and Midwifery from University of California San Francisco. She has cared for women and pregnant people in the United States and Latin America where she developed a Radio Soap Opera focused on having a healthy pregnancy. In her current role at Boston Medical Center she trains future midwives, obstetricians, and family medicine doctors to be patient advocates.

  • Board Member

    Born the oldest of four boys to a single teen mom on public assistance, Dr. Craig Andrade (he/him) grew up in the housing projects of Boston and Brockton, Massachusetts, directly experiencing poverty, drugs, violence, trauma, community, and love – all that spark and drive his advocacy practice.

    Dr. Andrade is a registered nurse, athletic trainer, licensed massage therapist, strength and condition specialist, health educator and racial equity activist and facilitator with masters and doctoral degrees in public health from Boston University School of Public Health.

    Previously Dr. Andrade served a as acute care, cardiac critical care and public health nurse at Boston Medical Center; nurse manager and head athletic trainer at Buckingham Browne & Nichols School in Cambridge, MA; and was owner/operator of Active Health, a private health and fitness company. He served as Associate Dean of Health and Wellness and Director of Student Health Services at Wheaton College in Norton, MA. And lead as Director of the Bureau of Family Health & Nutrition at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH), helping found the Racial Equity Leadership Team and Cross-Department Racial Equity Collaborative at DPH.

    Dr. Andrade now serves as Associate Dean of Practice, Director of The Activist Lab, and Associate Professor of Community Health Sciences at Boston University’s School of Public Health (SPH) where he works to catalyze bold public health practice that promotes racial justice and health equity locally, nationally and globally. His advocacy and research interests include racial equity, healthy socialization of boys and men, fatherhood engagement and behavioral risk management and resilience-building among children, adolescents and young adults.

  • Board Member

    Dr. Yvonne Gomez-Carrion (she/her) was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. At the age of eight, she proclaimed that she wanted to be both a physician and a priest. Nearly 6 decades, she is a physician who has been known to preach.

    Many opportunities allowed her to get an excellent education at Princeton University for her undergraduate education where she majored in Psychology. As a recipient of the National Health Service Corp, she attended New York City’s Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons for medical school.

    Dr. Gomez-Carrion is a board-certified obstetrician/gynecologist who has been in clinical practice since 1987 as an attending at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA, after completing her residency training at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City.

    Dr. Gomez-Carrion believes in a holistic approach to health care. For the past 4 decades, she has cared for patients with medical and social challenges including hypertension, diabetes, seizure disorders, autoimmune diseases, obesity, depression, domestic violence, substance abuse and homelessness. Since delivering her last baby on 2/14/2015, she has been a problem-oriented gynecologist who has expertise in managing patients with uterine fibroids, abnormal pap smears, abnormal vaginal bleeding, ovarian masses, gender dysphoria, and anxiety with pelvic exams. 

    In June 2023, Dr. Gomez-Carrion ended her clinical practice at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center to focus on her involvement in community and medical professionals’ education, addressing health disparities, black/brown birthing individuals’ reproductive justice and humanism in medicine.  In addition, she looks forward to spending more time on her own self-care by continuing her practices of meditation, exercising, writing poetry, spending more time with family/friends and showing gratitude.

    Dr. Gomez-Carrion has devoted her professional life to educating patients about their bodies' functioning and resilience, and discussing their treatment options for care, which empowers them to direct their care. She looks forward to continuing her work with Partner to Decide.