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.

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 .

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.

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.

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.

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)

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.

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.

Consuelo Echeverria, is a member of the HCFA-WA Board, co-editor of the e-bulletin, and co-chair of the Communication and Outreach Committees. She lived in Turkey for 22 years which gave her an appreciation of their highly regulated affordable health care system. While there, she founded a program to test and treat the forced migrant community for TB. When she moved to Seattle her work as a program manager and grant writer with refugee and immigrant community-based organizations showed her band-aid approaches do not work. She is now a convert to single payer universal health care because no one's health should depend on their ability to pay for their healthcare.

STEVEN B. AUERBACH, MD, MPH, native New Yorker, graduate of Columbia University medical school and school of public health. Completed pediatrics residency at UCLA and CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service. A career U.S. Public Health Service officer, he has served overseas and in-country. He has been a member of PNHP and an advocate for single payer since 2000. He currently serves as the treasurer/executive committee member for Physicians for a National Health Program, is active with the Campaign for NY Health and the NY Doctors coalitions, and is treasurer for the NYS American Academy of Pediatric Chapter 3 (Manhattan, Bronx, lower Hudson Valley).