Our Board Members

Co-Chairs

Marilyn Clement National Coordinator and Founder June 30, 1935 – August 3, 2009 Healthcare-NOW	Dr. Quentin Young National Coordinator Physicians for a National Health Program
Leo Gerard President United Steelworkers Union	Jim Winkler General Secretary General Board of Church and Society United Methodist Church
Rose Ann DeMoro Executive Director California Nurses Association

Board Members

Nurah Ammat’ Ullah, Muslim Women’s Institute for Research and Development
Barbara T. Baylor, MPH, Minister for Health and Wellness Program, United Church of Christ, Cleveland, OH
Don Bechler, Veteran Healthcare Activist, San Francisco, CA
Medea Benjamin, Code Pink, San Francisco, CA
Dr.Charlie Clements, Director, Unitarian Universalist Service Association, Boston, MA
*Mark Dudzik, Labor Campaign for Single-Payer, Washington, D.C.
Rebecca Elgie, Co-Director of The Tompkins County Health Care Task Force
Dr. Oliver Fein, President, Physicians for a National Health Program, NY
Dr. Margaret Flowers, Congressional Fellow, Physicians for a National Health Program
*Sandy Fox, Organizer Activist for Healthcare-NOW, Pittsburgh, PA
Dr. Ida Hellander, Executive Director, Physicians for a National Health Program, Chicago
Lindy Hern, Missourians for Single Payer
Dr. David Himmelstein, Co-Founder, Physicians for a National Health Program, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
John Horgan, International Brotherwood of Electrical Workers, Boston
Susie Johnson, Executive Secretary for Public Policy, United Methodist Church, Women’s Division, Washington, DC
Edith Kenna, Hoosiers for a Common Sense Health Plan
Michael Lighty, Director of Public Policy, California Nurses Association
John Lozier, Executive Director National Health Care for the Homeless Council, Nashville, TN
Mark Piotrowski, Alachua Country Labor Party, Gainesville, FL
Mikuak Rai, DC Coalition of Uninsured and Underinsured for Single Payer
*Margie Rece, Healthcare-NOW Activist, Atlanta, GA
Art Richter, Single Payer NY; Citizens for Universal Healthcare
Cecil Roberts, President, United Mineworkers of America, Washington, DC
Ethel Long Scott, Executive Director, Women’s Economic Agenda Project, Oakland, CA
Mona Shaw, Des Moines Catholic Worker
*Donna Smith, California Nurses Association, American Patients United
*Ray Stever, President, Industrial Unions Council
Liz Theoharis, The Employment Project, New York, NY
*Miriam Thompson, Activist Organizer, NC
*Kay Tillow, Labor Organizer, Louisville, KY
*Tom Knoche, Healthcare-NOW!, NJ
Chris Townsend, Political Action Director, United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America (UE)
Rita Valenti, Healthcare-NOW! Georgia and Georgians for a Common Sense Health Plan
Vashti Winterburg, co-chair, Kansas Health Care for all
*Dr. Lucius Walker, Executive Director, Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization, New York, NY