Sebrena Sawtell

Vice President, Public Relations & Marketing

Sebrena Sawtell serves as Vice President of Public Relations & Marketing for Adventist HealthCare. In her role, she leads the organization’s public relations, marketing, digital, design and internal communications functions, advancing the Adventist HealthCare brand and supporting the organization’s Vision 2030 goals.

Over the past 25 years, Sebrena has served in leadership roles spanning healthcare, government and commercial sectors. Prior to joining Adventist HealthCare, she served as Head of Marketing at Booz Allen, where she led enterprise marketing strategies aligned with organizational growth priorities and directed integrated campaigns across healthcare, defense, intelligence and commercial markets.

Earlier in her career, Sebrena supported marketing for regional hospitals in the Chicago area that are now part of AdventHealth and later led public relations, marketing and media functions for Life Care Centers of America, a healthcare management company operating skilled nursing, assisted living and retirement centers across 28 states. She also served as Assistant Vice President at a Washington, D.C.-based communications agency, advising state and federal government agencies and commercial clients on strategic communications, crisis response and reputation management.

Sebrena holds a Master of Business Administration from Southern Adventist University and a bachelor’s degree in communications from Andrews University. She also maintains advanced certifications in change management (LaMarsh, Prosci, CMAP), digital marketing, artificial intelligence enablement, and crisis communications.

She specializes in strategic communications, brand transformation, reputation management, executive communications, crisis communications, marketing strategy, and organizational change leadership.

Sebrena lives in Montgomery County with her husband, two children, and four dogs.