Our Team

About Family Voices \ Our Team

While Family Voices’ core team of staff and consultants live and work from across the country, our national office is located in Concord, Massachusetts. Together with our network of Affiliated Organizations and our many funders and partners, our team is deeply committed to transforming systems of care to work better for all children and youth, especially those with special health care needs or disabilities.
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Lauren Cavanagh

Finance Coordinator

Emily Eggleston

Chief of Staff

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Suzanne Farris

Project Director

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Smythe Kannapell

Director of Finance

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Andrea Li

Senior Project Coordinator

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Melanie Lindsay

Senior Project Coordinator

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Steph Lomangino

Program Strategy Manager

Nikki Montgomery

Director of Strategy and Communications

Ashlee Richey

Director of Digital Operations and HR

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Vanessa Rodriguez

Project Director

Roseani Sánchez

Program Operations Manager

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Kristina Trujillo Stephens

Project Director

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mav Vega

Grants and Contracts Manager

Allysa Ware

Executive Director
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Wesley Wei

Policy Manager

Ian Whitney

Digital Operations Manager

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Tori Yepez

Project Director

Consultants

Tami Allen, Families Together, Inc.
Role: F2F Regional Call Facilitator, Region C

Diana Autin, SPAN Parent Advocacy Network
Role:  Co-Director of Family Engagement and Leadership in Systems of Care

Yetta Myrick
Role: Co-lead, Family Voices United to End Racism Against CYSHCN and Families Project; Co-Investigator, Community Autism Research Ambassador Program

Tara Hayes, Rhode Island Parent Information Network
Role: F2F Regional Call Facilitator, Region A

Susan Wood, Hilopa’a Family to Family Health Information Center
Role: F2F Regional Call Facilitator, Region D

Natalie Wooldridge, Arkansas Disability Coalition
Role: F2F Regional Call Facilitator, Region B

 

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Our Vision

With families at the center of health care, all children and youth reach their full potential and health disparities are eliminated.

Our Mission

Family Voices is a national organization and grassroots network of families and friends of children and youth with special health care needs and disabilities that promotes partnership with families—including those of cultural, linguistic and geographic diversity—in order to improve health care services and policies for children.

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