A trilingual medical interpreter and tech executive, Patricia wants to make sure every family in our community gets the support they need to thrive.
Patricia Alonzo is the daughter of a union mechanic and a self-employed hairdresser. She’s lived in Northern Hillsborough County for more than two decades with her family. In that time, she has sat by countless hospital bedsides, helping people get the care they need. Patricia has worked as a medical translator, as an ASL teacher at Middleton High School, and most recently as an executive at a tech startup.
In her time as an ASL and Spanish-language interpreter for Moffitt Cancer Center, Patricia helped families navigate bureaucracies in the most challenging circumstances. She then worked with tech companies to use video and mobile technology to expand interpretation capabilities for hospitals and other organizations. In her work, Patricia has seen institutions fail people when they needed it the most and she’s seen institutions provide critical support that made the difference between life and death. She wants to make sure every family in our community gets the support they need to thrive.
Patricia is close with her large family and values their time together. Her upbringing instilled in her the values of hard work, authenticity, inclusivity, and the importance of caring for one’s neighbors. In her spare time she continues to volunteer at Moffitt, helping kids and women at Faces of Courage, Metropolitan Ministries, and building homes for the Women’s Build at Habitat for Humanity.
