Co-founder and president of the One Payer States network (2009-), associate professor of history and politics at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia (2003-), senior advisor (2015-), and former executive director (2006-2015) to Healthcare for All Pennsylvania.

Andrea is a senior advisor to OPS and a veteran social justice strategist and organizer. In 2019 she had a major role in making Action Network the core element of OPS organizing and communication. She is a founding board member and digital strategist for the Center for Common Ground.

Rudy Arredondo is an experienced Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the civil rights, farm and ranching agricultural policy, public health, public relations and communi-cations industry. Skilled in Nonprofit Organizations, Corporate Social Responsibility, Grassroots Organizing, Government, and Crisis Communications. Strong business development professional graduated from Columbia Union College.

Kathryn is Treasurer for OPS and Chair of Whole Washington Board of Directors. She is also serving as interim co-chair of the OPS Education and Advocacy Work Group. Kathryn is a Registered Nurse in Washington State with over 30 years of experience in Healthcare working in the Acute Care setting in Oncology, IV Therapy, Critical Care, and Hospice.

Caroline Corum is co-chair of the OPS Education and Advocacy Work Group. She is a nurse. When she was first diagnosed with breast cancer, she hardly paid attention to the bills. As a 52-year-old nurse from Arlington, Va., Corum’s treatments were largely paid through her employer’s insurance. But that changed when the disease forced her to leave her job and take disability . Suddenly faced with exorbitant costs and the prospect of losing her doctors, Corum signed up for coverage with a nearly $700 monthly premium through the COBRA health insurance law, which lets former employees temporarily keep their employer insurance at a higher cost.

Mike is Secretary of One Payer States. He graduated from the University of Oregon Medical School and was a Radiation Oncologist for 35 years. He is a member of Physicians for a National Health Program and was President of Health Care for All Oregon in 2012. He is currently Vice-Chair of Mid-Valley Health Care Advocates in Corvallis.

Dr. Beatriz “Betty” Valencia, Ph.D., is a proponent of education equity and has a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership Studies, serving as the vice-president of Santiago Canyon College Foundation (SCCF) Board of Directors.

Betty Keller, MD, is co-chair of the Education and Advocacy Work Group for One Payer States. She is President of the Vermont Chapter of PNHP and is a leader in the Vermont League of Women Voters’ Health Care Caucus.

Barbara Pearson curates the collection of state proposals universal health care proposals. See map on the OPS website. After retiring from her post as a university lecturer and research associate in linguistics, she dedicates her time to advocating *for* Single Payer/ Medicare for All and *against* voter suppression. She is chair of the League of Women Voters Health Care Committee in Amherst, MA.

Stephen Kemble, M.D. is a semi-retired psychiatrist who chairs the Policy Work Group and lives in Oahu, Hawaii. He has written many articles on healthcare policy how he was president of the Hawaiian medical Association and currently is on the Hawaiian Health Authority Board.

Anne Jones, RN, BSN, MA is Vice Chair of Health Care for All Minnesota. She practiced nursing for over 45 years. Anne has had a long-standing interest in health policy and financing of health care in the U.S.

Departmental Vice President Retail Central with CWA3108. As a member of Medicare for All CT, an all-volunteer grassroots group advocating for guaranteed healthcare for all, Stephan was part of the effort, that for the first time in many years, in 2021, a state-level single-payer bill was introduced in Connecticut.

Ajay Marwaha is a physician who believes that high-quality and affordable healthcare is a human right. He advocates for expanding affordable, equitable, portable, and high-quality health insurance coverage to everyone in America in their spare time.
Ajay believes that, as the wealthiest nation in the world, America has the ability to achieve this.

Michele Hamilton (She, her) is Assistant Director of Shelter Services at the Centre County Women’s Resource Center, an organization that provides services to survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual violence, and stalking. Michele lives in Centre County, PA, and supports many local progressive and human service programs. She currently serves as the Vice President of the PA National Organization for Women.

BA English & Spanish, MS Spanish, MED Public School Administration- serves as President of the Health Care for All Colorado Advocacy Board (HCAC). Lydia was born and raised in Texas and lives in Denver. She has a son who lives in Texas. She is a retired educator, most recently serving in the Denver Metro area school districts as a teacher, High School Principal, Assistant Principal and a school district Chief Program Officer. She has also served on the Board of Directors for Health Care for All Colorado (HCAC) for the past 13 years. She served as Chair of the Denver Chapter of HCAC. She has been a diligent activist for health care reform in Colorado.

For years, Catherine Hunt has been a champion of progressive values and exemplified grassroots efforts. She has been an active participant in Our Revolution since its inception. She has also been a leader of the Progressive Democrats of America. A lifelong social justice activist, Catherine is also a member of the National Nurses Association.

Trained as a labor historian at Berkeley in the early 1970s, Shapiro left academia and pursued a career with the Postal Service as a letter carrier, mail handler and clerk before retiring in 2008. He wrote a book, “Song of the Stubborn One Thousand” about the 1985-57 Watsonville cannery strike.

Lloyd H. Alterman, MD, FACP, (He him) is an American Society of Hypertension-certified hypertension specialist. Dr. Alterman notes, “My father succumbed to kidney failure in the prime of his life, before modern advances could help him. The experience inspired me to pursue a career in internal medicine and kidney disease.

Ronna (She, her) is a leader of Health Care for All Connecticut who spearheaded a campaign in 2019 resulting in New London CT, becoming the first municipality in Connecticut to publicly call for Medicare for All. BGS, Eastern CT State University, Early Childhood Education Retired; preschool teacher and home visitor for 30 years.New London Board of Education (2009-11); Planning and Zoning Commission (2014-present)

Bevin McLeod, Co-Founder & Board President of Alliance for a Healthy Washington (AHW), holds degrees in Economics and International Political Economy from the University of Washington. She promotes policy that furthers efforts at sustainable and equitable healthcare reform.

Dr. Julie Pease hails from Minnesota, and has lived in Maine since 1987. She received her undergraduate degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, her medical degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School, and her psychiatry training at the University of Vermont Medical Center Hospital. She is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. A co-founder of Maine AllCare, Dr. Pease was president of the board from 2011-2016.

Rodney S. Sadler, Jr. is a graduate of Howard University (1989, B.S. Psychology/Philosophy), Howard University School of Divinity (1992, M.Div.), and Duke University (2001, Ph.D. Hebrew Bible and Biblical Archaeology), and has also studied at Hebrew University (1990). He is an ordained Baptist minister and presently serves as Associate Pastor of Mount Carmel Baptist Church and Associate Professor of Bible at Union Presbyterian Seminary.

Alex Deitrich-Cortez (she/her) is a White, neurodivergent, queer woman of 20th-century, working-class immigrant descent. She got her start in social justice and equity in her high school years. She later expanded into electoral politics with the Bernie 2016 campaign. Now a civil service worker and union member, she aims to bridge the generational gap in healthcare reform dialogues. Her primary interests in working with OPS are in consolidating power across voting blocs and promoting policies that integrate multiple dimensions of wellness in public health administration.