Evelyn Arana-Ortiz was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico and arrived in Boston in 1990 where she joined IDX Systems Corporation, a healthcare software systems organization for large academic medical facilities and hospitals. In 2004, she was selected to oversee and lead various software implementation projects for what was considered the largest information technology implementation in Europe, the electronic patient record for the British National Health Service. She currently works at GE Healthcare as a Senior Implementations Project Manager for large hospitals and medical facilities managing multi-million dollar projects.

She graduated from the University of Puerto Rico with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration with a major in Information Systems and later completed a Masters of Science in Management from Lesley University, Cambridge , MA.

Mrs. Arana-Ortiz's commitment to serve the community awarded her the appointment to join the Boston GE Hispanic Forum leadership team, responsible for attracting, retaining, and training Hispanic talent as well as organize and lead community service activities in the Boston area. She also served in the Executive Board of 826Boston, a nonprofit organization dedicated to support students ages 6-18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write.