Program Officer
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota
Community Affairs/Foundation
3535 Blue Cross Rd.
Eagan
MNUSA
55122
Email:
Jocelyn_L_Ancheta@bluecrossmn.com
Biographical Sketch: Jocelyn Ancheta joined Blue Cross Minnesota Foundation in October 2005. She manages Healthy Together: Creating Community with New Americans, a grantmaking initiative addressing the intersection of three important determinants of health: social connectedness, social adjustment and immigrant integration. She was a consultant with Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrant and Refugees, producing Immigrant and Refugee Funding Trends in Minnesota. Jocelyn was a program officer at The McKnight Foundation, Children and Families for almost 11 years. She worked at the Minnesota Department of Public Safety as a safety program coordinator monitoring grants in community-based traffic safety programs and emergency medical services. Other nonprofit positions included community worker with Catholic Charities; legal advocate with the Domestic Abuse Project and project manager for Metro Deaf Senior Citizens. She earned a masters or arts degree from the University of Minnesota, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. Her undergraduate work was also from the University of Minnesota, College of Education/Park and Recreation Administration. She emigrated from the Philippine to Minnesota with her family in 1966.