Devin Cabanilla

Devin Cabanilla is an advocate for inclusive education in the community and equity in healthcare and other industries. He has transformed organizational strategies and operational processes using Lean Kaizen methodologies. His innovation projects and improvement workshops have been honed across hospitals and community health settings like Virginia Mason Medical, Seattle Children’s Hospital, University of WA Medical, and Sea Mar Community Health system. This included implementing a new CMS system standardization of race-ethnicity intake, improving regional provider empanelment for Medicaid, and also designing the first Diversity Equity Inclusion Training program at Children’s Hospital.

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During the Covid pandemic in Seattle Devin organized virus testing clinics, alternative venues of instruction for special education students, safe reopening strategies, and expanded the Department of Liberatory Education in the Seattle Schools system. Additionally, he launched the school district headquarters' first Race & Ethnicity focused Employee Resource Groups.

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Devin is a Certified Facilitator in ToPS and has multiple lean certifications including a Lean Six Sigma Blackbelt. He holds an MBA from Northwest University with concentrations in International Community Development and International Business. He is actively engaged in expanding ethnic studies with community groups such as Make Us Visible, the Wing Luke Museum, and FANHS. He helped design Seattle’s Redline Heritage Trail exploring segregation history,  and worked with King County Public Health to kick off the Anti-Asian discrimination campaign related to Coronavirus Stigma.

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His current community projects are completing his first Children’s book,  launching Mam’s Bookstore in the International District, and creating policy legislation for culturally responsive education and ethnic studies in WA state.