"The Calming Time Workshop was Phenomenal. It’s all I needed to feel better and improve my quality of life. During the practice, I even fall asleep. Thank you for offering this amazing workshop that truly helped me to reduce my physical and mental exhaustion."
LUZ ACEVEDO
OUR MISSION
A minority and women led non-profit organization, Equilibrio Health & Wellness’s mission is to promote health and wellness and improve the health outcome of underserved Latinx adults, children, youth, LGBTQAI+ populations as well as people from all walks of life.
DIRECTORS
Fabiola Goris, MBA
President/ Executive Director
A seasoned administrator with extensive experience providing guidance and leadership to numerous human services projects, Fabiola F. Goris is a co-founder and current President & CEO of the Equilibrio Health & Wellness Foundation.
A galvanizer of leaders and other resources in the interest of promoting the social, emotional, cultural and health and wellness interest of communities, Fabiola’s contributions include, managing the operations of a general and internal medicine group practice, exercising leadership and oversight over a preventive and management of diabetes initiative, and imparting training and knowledge to over 600 New York City, South America, and Caribbean-based non-profit arts managers.
Rivel Lozada, USMLE, 1 & 2-CS
Vice-President
An accredited physician in the Dominican Republic, Rivel Lozada has successfully completed two thirds of United States’ Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) requirements to gain certification and admission to the United States’ Medical Board.
Trained as a family practitioner in his native country, Rivel Lozada authored and presented an article on the prevalence of alcohol consumption among pregnant women receiving pre-natal care at the Hospital Universitario Maternidad Nuestra Señora de Altagracia in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Rivel fought against the spread of the dengue virus in the Dominican Republic by helping institute a process of medical surveillance and providing preventive medical literature and outreach to various vulnerable, isolated, and uninsured communities.
EEO Statement
(Equal Employer Opportunity)
Equilibrio Health & Wellness (Equilibrio Center) is committed to achieving justice and equality and to be a model organization in preventing, stopping and remedying all forms of discrimination in our workplace.
All Equilibrio Center employees are protected by federal laws, Executive Orders, and other laws designed to protect employees from discrimination on the bases of race, religion, color, gender (including pregnancy and gender identity), sexual orientation, parental status, national origin, age, disability, family medical history or genetic information, political affiliation, military service, or any other non-merit based factors.