Senior Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer, Adtalem Global Education
Search every verified Maurice Herrera interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Maurice Herrera, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Adtalem Global Education, discussed his role and the company’s mission during a September 2024 interview. Herrera stated that Adtalem’s institutions play a role in closing the diversity, equity, and inclusion gap in healthcare, and said the company graduates more Black doctors in the United States through its workforce solution strategy. He described Adtalem’s mission as providing access and knowledge to opportunities in healthcare, and said the company helps the Latino community fulfill ambitions in careers such as doctor, nurse, clinical psychologist, and social worker. Herrera also spoke about his personal background, noting that he grew up in New York City and that his parents are of Ecuadorian descent. He said Hispanic Heritage Month is an opportunity to expand awareness of Latino culture and to appreciate his upbringing and the sacrifices made by his parents. He highlighted aspects of Latino culture he values, including food, family, and perseverance.
“I love how each of our institutions plays a critical role in closing the DEI gap. The diversity, equity, and inclusion in health care has a very big gap, and so our institutions, and every one of them, helps really close those gaps in the health care space.”
“We graduate more black doctors in the United States through our category one strategy where we are a workforce solution, marrying the ambitions of prospective students with the needs that are very great in health care.”
“One of the big limitations that faces the Latino community is access — access to knowledge, access to opportunities. And that's why for me being at Adtalem is a great source of pride because that is our mission: to provide access and knowledge to opportunities in healthcare.”
“The opportunity to be a doctor, to be a nurse, to be a clinical psychologist, to be a social worker given the great demands that we have in this country for me is a big source of pride that we provide the Latino community the opportunity to fulfill their ambition in a career in healthcare.”
Maurice Herrera, chief marketing officer at Adtalem Global Education, shares how he combines his Ecuadorian heritage, lifelong ...
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