Mark Cruz with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—In June, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. appointed Mark Cruz, as senior advisor to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Cruz is a 35th generation Oregonian, born in Salem, and is a citizen of the Klamath Tribes. After earning his bachelor's degree in political science from Pepperdine University and a master's degree in urban education policy from Brown University, Cruz began his career in education through Teach for America, teaching at a Bureau of Indian Education tribal grant school on the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation in Sout...
