Tomi was 17 when she decided healthcare was her life's work. She completed her CNA certification at 18 and stepped onto a hospital floor for the first time, and she has not stopped since. Over the next decade, she rose through every level of the field, phlebotomy, laboratory leadership, acute care, and nursing, earning the highest-tier lab assistant position at Sonora Medical Center and a Service Excellence Award for the kind of care that lifted an entire hospital. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Chamberlain College of Nursing while simultaneously running a business she kept alive through a global pandemic on nothing but adaptability and will. But Tomi did not build that foundation just to work inside a system she knew was failing people. She built it so she could build something outside of it. Alongside her life partner Jasmine, Tomi co-founded Releaf Holistic, an integrative primary care practice where she oversees operations, conducts patient assessments, supports individualized treatment plans, and drives quality improvement every single day. Releaf is not separate from who she is. It is the clinical expression of everything she believes, that care should be whole-person, prevention-centered, and delivered with integrity. That same belief is what gave rise to The People's Medic. TPM exists because Tomi looked at the communities around her and saw the same thing over and over: people who were underserved, undereducated about their own health, and told to wait their turn by institutions that were never designed to prioritize them. She refused to accept that. She co-founded TPM alongside Jasmine to put life-saving health care, love and knowledge directly into the hands of everyday people. No insurance required. No prerequisites. No gatekeeping. Just education, delivered where people actually are, by people who actually care. Tomi has organized community classes, trained volunteers, led outreach in places where most providers have never set foot, and testified before government committees about public health failures she witnessed firsthand. She handles the organizational infrastructure, logistics, partnerships, operations, and the invisible work that turns a mission into a functioning movement. She is currently pursuing her graduate education to become a nurse practitioner because she believes the work demands it and the community deserves it. She cares for her ninety-two-year-old father at home, which has taught her more about dignity, patience, and advocacy than any institution ever could. She believes the most radical act in healthcare right now is giving people the knowledge to take care of themselves and each other. She is not waiting for the system to do it. She is doing it. It changes when people on the ground decide to build something better and then actually do it. She has never waited for conditions to be perfect. She builds on the conditions she is given. That is what she has always been doing. And she is just getting started.

Jasmine is a board-certified family nurse practitioner and certified wound care clinician who has spent her career in the space between what people need and what the system is willing to give them. She graduated from Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in California, an institution founded in the wake of the Watts uprising with a singular mission: to serve the underserved. That was not a coincidence. That was a choice that tells you everything you need to know about how she moves through this work. She is fluent in English and Tagalog and conversational in Spanish, not because it looks good on paper, but because she has sat across from people who could not find the words for their pain in a language that wasn't theirs, and she decided that would never happen under her care. She is well-traveled and deeply cultured, shaped by experiences far beyond the walls of any clinic or classroom. That breadth shows up in how she connects with people, across languages, across backgrounds, across the assumptions that most providers never bother to challenge. She has treated patients across every age and walk of life, and she carries that range into every class, every outreach event, and every community interaction with The People's Medic. Alongside Tomi, Jasmine co-founded Releaf Holistic, an integrative primary care practice rooted in the belief that healing requires treating the whole person, mind, body, and spirit. That same philosophy lives at the heart of TPM. Jasmine co-founded The People's Medic because she saw that the most dangerous gap in healthcare is not access to treatment. It is access to knowledge. People are dying from things they could have recognized, managed, or prevented if someone had taken the time to teach them. Not behind a paywall. Not in clinical language designed to keep them dependent on a system that wasn't built for them. In plain words, in their own communities, on their own terms. That is what TPM exists to do, and Jasmine is the clinical backbone that makes it possible. She develops curriculum, leads training, and ensures that every piece of education that leaves this organization is rooted in evidence-based practice and delivered with the kind of care that makes people feel seen.

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