Carolina Lucero

Community Member - at large | Retired. Former Senior Vice President, Sea Mar Community Health Centers

Carolina Lucero, MSW, has worked with Sea Mar Community Health Centers for the past 33 years. Her service has provided her with expertise in primary care clinics, preventive health services and care coordination, community-based senior care services, and facility service lines for nursing and assisted living personnel. Her responsibilities have spanned from direct service provider, to management, to her current role in senior leadership. Currently, Ms. Lucero has oversight of the long-term care coordination services in several primary care clinics located in diverse communities throughout Western Washington. She is involved in many of Sea Mar’s community outreach projects and has advocated over the last 38 years for underserved communities, specifically in the areas of health and education.

Ms. Lucero has been instrumental in addressing gaps in nursing education and shortages of bilingual and bicultural nurses in Washington State. She is a member of technical advisory committees for a number of institutions of higher education in the area, including the University of Washington, South Seattle Community College, Bellevue College, and sits on the President’s Advisory Council at Lake Washington Institute of Technology.