Our people

People of Promise: James Cruz, MD, helps grow healthy lives in a career devoted to medically underserved communities.

This year marks the 10th anniversary of our Mission & Values in Action (MVIA) awards — Blue Shield of California's highest honor. After a rigorous selection process from 40 nominations, including 21 teams, eight individuals, six customer success individuals and five corporate citizenship individuals, we have announced our winners of the 2022 MVIA awards.

Blue Shield is committed to achieving our goal of 80% of our members opting in for paperless communication by 2025, an effort that is being led by Vivian Burgard, transformation principal of Communication Governance.

Erica Ayala connects the disconnected in her professional and volunteer lives.

We celebrated Employee Appreciation Week with a variety of events and perks for our people who show up every day to help us transform the healthcare system.

At Blue Shield, we celebrate the contributions and achievements of women year-round. To help support our women, we started the Elevating Women employee resource group.

Equal Pay Day represents how far into the year women must work to earn what men earned in the previous year. Learn about our commitment to equal pay.

Looking for your next tech job? We hosted a LinkedIn Live event featuring Lisa Davis, senior vice president and chief information officer, discussing our open IT positions. Watch now if you’re looking for IT career opportunities.

We’re an equal opportunity employer that embraces a diverse workplace. One way we support this is through sponsoring a variety of employee resource groups (ERGs), such as the Black Employee Network, designed to educate and support our people.