Rev. Cynthia Carter-Perrilliat, MPA, BA, is Co-founder and CEO of the AC Care Alliance (ACCA), a community-based organization in partnership with clinical, academic, and community organizations, engaging over 50 faith-based organizations and their pastors in five northern California counties, including Alameda and San Francisco counties and most recently Los Angeles county. The ACCA Advanced Illness Care Program™ assists persons needing advanced illness care and their families/caregivers manage physical, emotional, spiritual, social and advanced care planning needs.
Rev. Cynthia has served as a Principal Investigator/Program Director for the Public Health Institute, PHI, in this capacity. She has over 25 years of experience as a hospice and palliative care educator, trainer and marketing professional. She has served as faculty for the Duke University Institute on Care at the End of Life APPEAL program, which stands for A Progressive Palliative Care Educational Curriculum for Care of African Americans at Life’s End. Rev. Cynthia is a much sought-after motivational speaker and advocate for health equity and inclusion for communities of color, having presented most recently at the Science and Wisdom conference, London, England. She has served as Board member of VitalTalk.org, an organization that focuses on curriculum and language development for physicians that care for those with serious illness.
Under Rev. Cynthia’s leadership the ACCA received the Center to Advance Palliative Care, CAPC, Innovative Model Recognition, and the Excellence in Innovation Award from the American Public Health Association Archstone Foundation. Rev. Cynthia is an ordained minister, serving at the historic Allen Temple Baptist Church, Oakland CA, as well as a gospel/jazz music recording artist and writer under her Splendor Record label, having recently released “If I Had A Hammer” the social justice mantra for a new generation of listeners, available on most on-line music platforms. www.CynthiaCarterLive.com