Tip Jars and Sustaining Members

In my line of work and type of advocacy, I get a lot of requests for pro bono work.  I support my life’s mission and a family on the money I earn from painting and speaking.  Though I am always trying to add to the public good, I can only agree to a few pro bono gigs per year.  Some of the venues that ask me to present are small hospitals, non-profits or universities that can only afford to pay travel, lodging and my babysitter’s fees.  I work with these folks because I so deeply want to help their mission as it aligns with my own.  We want to help patients have better lives and end of lives.  We want medical professionals to have joy in their work as they help others.

Some venues don’t have any money for patient speakers.  They cannot afford to pay for travel or lodging or anything else.  They may be very small and operating on a shoestring budget.  Or they could be very large but their advocacy is far reaching and the funds are pressed thin.

For the past two years @HIMSS has asked me to speak.  For the past two years HIMSS has paid my travel and lodging.  This year they cannot.  They would like me to speak, paint and spread the patient story far and wide but there are no funds for travel.

I did the math.  If I sleep on a friend’s couch or even bring a sleeping bag, I could go to Orlando #HIMSS2014 but I need to spend $850.00 out of pocket on travel and sitter’s fees.  I told my friend @ePatientDave I would probably bring a tip jar to set next to my easel in an effort to defray the cost.  Hey, it works for musicians on the subway.   Why not work for an activist artist at an informatics conference? 

Then a friend on twitter asked me if there was a way to donate towards my work.  Did I have a @gittip account?  I did not.  But her question intrigued me.  What was Gittip?

Well, I went to their homepage and my world was rocked!  It is a sustainable crowdfund! I wanted to fistbump the entire Internet! I have done crowdfunding before with great sites like @Medstartr and @Healthtechhatch, but that is a campaign specific and the funds I raise usually go to help others.  Here is the explanation from their page:

"WHAT IS GITTIP?

Gittip is a way to give small weekly cash gifts to people you love and are inspired by.

Gifts are weekly. The intention is for people to depend on money received through Gittip in order to pay their bills, and bills are recurring.

Gifts come with no strings attached. You don't know exactly where your gifts come from, and the maximum gift from one person to another is $100 per week.

Gifts are public. The total amount you give and the total amount you receive is public. Participants on both sides of the equation are rewarded publicly for their participation. (You can opt out of publicly displaying your total giving.)

Give by answering Who inspires you? on our homepage, and following the steps."

Wow!!! This could make a difference in the lives of so many patient advocates and speakers.

So here is my virtual tip jar: https://www.gittip.com/ReginaHolliday/

If you like what I do and want to support it in an ongoing way, this site is for you! 

Thank you everyone at Gittip for your valid work.  So many individuals in crowdfunding feel the shame of holding the beggars bowl; you have rebranded that bowl into a jar we can all be proud of.

**************************UPDATE*********************** 12:31 Feb 2, 2014

Just two hours later and folks are already donating!

@Sphere3 has already offered me a hotel room for HIMSS14!

God is good! I am so thankful and blessed to have such wonderful friends! What a great way to spend a Sunday.

Best Practices Every Medical Conference Should Embrace

(I rarely do a list post, but could not help myself today (blame it on my daily reading of @Cracked…)

I often attend medical conferences and hear about the best practices applied within medicine, but I rarely hear about best practices applied to the medical conference itself.  In a world of often shrinking budgets and limited bandwidth, we must choose carefully which conferences we should attend.  Embracing some of the suggestions below can make an event a must attend inspirational and renewing moment in our lives and careers.

1.     The standing table, lounging chair and the walking meeting

I recently returned from a wonderful roundtable discussion on clinical trials in Indianapolis.  We had great conversations about open data and patient participation.  The only bad part of the meeting was the back pain I began to suffer after sitting for a few hours.  I am among the ever-growing group of people who work at standing desks.  So staying seated is a special kind of agony.  Fortunately, I am also without a modicum of decorum and had access to my huge suitcase, so I made a standing table MacGyver style during the meeting.       

Some conferences already provide standing tables around the back of the room and I say kudos to you!  Health 2.0 is one, but if you know of others please give them a shout out in the comments section.

On the flip side of the coin of attendee comfort is the lounging couch.  As we invite more and more patients to medical conferences it behooves us to remember, many attendees are listening while in pain.  I applaud the all the conferences that offer a cool down or comfort room where attendees can recline.  But sadly, such rooms rarely have access to the content feed of the live sessions that are ongoing.  Medicine X is the first conference I have attended that offered lounging couches to any who needed to rest while taking part in the live event.   It was rather epic to see that level of inclusion.

Another great addition to the conference venue is the walking meeting.  My friend Ted Eytan, MD introduced me to this gem.  Don't feel your conference has to be contained within four walls.  Go "on the lam" in a official capacity and have some of your breakout sessions outside while walking.  It is incredibly refreshing!  

2.     Inviting e-Patient Scholars and Patient Advocates

The ePatient movement is really expanding.  More and more patients are taking a hand in their own medical futures and helping shape health policy.   Their questions during Q&A sessions often change the direction of the conversation of the conference itself. Their keynotes and panel speeches help other attendees to express their own personal health stories.  Many of these patients and advocates have very strong social media profiles and their live-tweeting of events has exposed conference conversations to the wider world.  Look no further than Medicine X to see the enormous potential of e-Patients to spread the content of a conference.  

“But where do I find such e-Patients?” I often hear in response. Well @speakerlink is a great place to start looking for potential attendees and speakers.  Another avenue is participation in online discussion groups on Facebook, twitter and LinkedIn.  The future in medicine is "Patients Included." 

3.     You must list your #hashtag on Symplur

I can talk about the power of twitter to spread your conference message until I am blue in the face, but without analytics to support my point it is only so much hot air.  Thank you Symplur Hashtag project for providing proof of the power of conversations.  For free.  I ask conference managers to please to list their conference hashtag on Symplur.  Symplur will archive those tweets for easy access and provide  analysis of the day.  Your data will add to the ever-greater haul of big data available for analysis to determine trends within healthcare. If you do this prior to your conference it is a great tool for pre-promotion.  (If you wait till the day of the event attendees like myself will often do it for you, but don’t count on that as a back-up plan)  

It is a win/win situation.   Now all those ePatients can tweet and spread the conversation and you have proof of the level of spread.  You just have to focus on how to fund those e-Patient Scholars.

4.     Crowdfunding at the Medical Conference

Hosting a medical conference is expensive.   It is somewhat terrifying to know you have to come with thousands of dollars to make your vision of a conference a reality.  Even a conference run on a bare bones budget will cost about 25K.  Sponsors are great if you can get them (thank you Cerner!) and a well established conference often can.  For the rest of us crowdfunding is a godsend.  I personally have worked with both @medstartr and @Healthtechhatch for crowdunding in the conference world.  We focused the crowdfunding effort on travel and lodging scholarships for e-Patient scholars.  Working in partnership with a non-profit in line with our conference mission was a great help in securing funds.  

But the power of crowdfunding attendance to enable participation in continuing medical education is not limited to conference organizers.   E-Patient scholars and patient advocates should consider this route to cover their participation expenses in health conferences and classes that do not offer sufficient scholarship options.  A proof of concept is our dear friend @AfternoonNapper who has done so much for the role of the patient in the world of medicine.

5.     Traitwise surveys are the way to go.

So how many of you look at that after-conference response survey in your email in box and whoop with joy?  I bet very few of you do, unless it is a @Traitwise survey.   Not only does Traitwise have a pleasing graphic interface and font selection not reminiscent of the early 1990’s, their surveys are fun.  They keep you in the loop and informed on how your response fits into the greater data set of the conference.  And after you complete your conference survey, you can keep going, filling out survey after survey for the good of mankind.  One of my fellow e-Patients did exactly that after the Partnership with Patients conference.  They broke the record for most answers in one session with over a thousand.  (Another reason you should invite e-Patients: We are very giving people.)

6.     Teach attendees how to live-tweet

One of my favorite quotations is probably misattributed to Sen. McCarthy:  “Beware of Artists they mix with all classes of society and are therefore the most dangerous.”  Yeah, artists specialize in mixing it up, but to do that they need a forum. 

Nowadays Twitter is that forum, for artists and everyone else.

If you are running a medical conference for the good of your attendees and the wider world of medicine, you have several goals.  You want to break even.  You want people to have an enjoyable time.  But most of all, you want people to walk away inspired to make this world a better place.  In healthcare, many individuals feel they do not have a voice in policy discussions.  I am not just talking patients here.   I have spoken to a great many doctors and nurses who feel like they have worked to make a better system for 20 years without sufficient progress.  They are discouraged and feel alone.  I challenge all of you conference planners to get them live-tweeting, to help them realize there are hundreds, even thousands who think as they do. 

I have attended two conferences wherein the conference planners designed an entire webinar around teaching attendees how to live-tweet.  One of these events offered a webinar and 1-800 number support to walk attendees through the entire process.  The conference organizer

offered raffle items at the event that attendees who live-tweeted were eligible to win.  So many new twitter voices joined a wider conversation due the efforts of one conference planner. 

Do you want your conference to live beyond the after-conference survey?  Do want your attendees to act upon the content they absorbed?  Then help them tweet; help them discover the voice they always had.

Remember, online the Q&A never has to end and the microphone is accessible to everyone. 

The Walking Gallery in 17 Countries

The Walking Gallery is walking around the world and has members in 17 countries.

We also have Walkers in 40 states in the US. I hope before the end of 2024 to see a walker in every state. If you would to join us in The Walking Gallery here is the link: http://reginaholliday.blogspot.com/2016/03/how-do-you-join-walking-gallery.html

If you want to donate to support our movement, you can do so here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/10th-anniversary-of-the-walking-gallery

(There are currently 25 jackets in my to-do pile and hopefully some of them will be from states that do not have walkers, but if you know of excellent walkers or potential gallery artists please send them my way!)

We have 468 walkers wearing 520 jackets and each day some of them are walking and spreading the word about truly patient centered care and positive change in the world of medicine.

We also have 52 artists painting about these stories.

Thank you all! 

The artists of the gallery: (Children and Teen artists are in bold face)

1. Regina Holliday 431 jackets

2. Isaac Holliday, 2 jackets

3. Becca Price, 1 jacket

4. Miriam Cutelis, 1 jacket

5. Ess Lipczenko, 1 jacket

6. Ben Merrion 1 jacket

7. Courtney Mazza 6 jackets

8. Michele Banks 1 jacket

9. Megan Mitchell 1 jacket

10. Robert J. Filley 3 jackets

11. Anita Samarth 1 jacket

12. Mary Welch Higgins 2 jackets

13. Richard Sachs 2 jacket

14. Jonah Daniel 1 jacket

15. Fred Trotter 1 jacket

16. Leela 1 jacket

17. Gayle Schrier Smith, 1 Jacket

18. Moira Simms, 1 Jacket

19 Joan Holliday 1 Jacket

20 Adalyn 1 jacket

21.Chris Chan, 1 jacket

22. Amy O'Hanlon 1 jacket

23. Vera Rulon 3 jacket

24. Jessica Nicula 2 jacket

25. Nikai, 1 jacket

26. Deon, 1 jacket

27. Daquane, 1 jacket

28. Olivia Dias, 1 jacket

29. Donnell Bonaparte, 1 jacket

30. Hazel F, 1 jacket

31. Rachel Fields, 1 jacket

32. Zoe Carr, 1 jacket

33. Thomas Richardson, 1 jacket

34.  Tamela Mack, 1 jacket

35.  Julia Anderson, 1 jacket

36. DJ Hamilton, 1 jacket

37. Jenn Toby. 1 jacket

38. Camala Walling, 1 jacket

39. Jordan Lanham, 1 jacket

40. Josh Miller, 1 jacket

41.  Te'j Matthews, 1 jacket

42.  Anthony Ziegler,1 jaket

43. Shannon Shine, 2 jackets

44. Melody Smith Jones, 3 Jackets

45. Kay Seurat, 1 jacket

46. Danny McGinnest Jr., 5 jackets

47. Janice Lynn Schuster, 1 jacket

48. Kathleen R. Drake, 1 jacket
49. Ileana Balcu, 1 jacket

50. Virginia Lorenzi, 1 jacket

51. Soojin Jun, 1 jacket

52. Ginny DeBronkart, 1 jacket

Heaven:

In 2016 we had our first death in the Walking Gallery.  We loss Jess Jacobs.  Now several members of the Walking Gallery have died.  They walk where we can no longer see them.  If you see an asterisk by a name that person walks with us in spirit. 


Australia

1 Heather Leslie, Melbourne

2 Louise Schaper, Melbourne

3 Sam Bruinewoud, Melbourne
4 Catherine Crock, Melbourne

5 Carolyn Der Vartanian, Sydney, NSW

6 Michelle F Davis, Sydney, NSW

7 Lissa Smith, Sydney, NSW

8 Sanya Turalj, Sydney, NSW
9 Tara Dimopoulos Bick
10 Kath Mazella, Perth

Belgium
Vincent Keunen, Liege

Canada

1 Colin Hung, Toronto, Ontario

2 Colleen Young, Toronto,Ontario
3 Carolyn Thomas, Victoria, BC

4 Natrice Rese, Timmins, Ontario
5 Kathy Kastner, Toronto, Ontario
6 Annette McKinnon, Toronto, Ontario
7 Kelly Grindrod, Kitchener,Ontario
8 Catherine Wilhelmy, Quebec
9 Marie-Michele Brodeur, Sherbrooke, Quebec
10 Marie-Claude Poulin, Quebec
11 Wendy Station, North Vancouver* March 9, 1955- October 25, 2020  
12 Francisco Grajales, Toronto, Ontario
13 Deb Maskens, Guelph, Ontario
14 Chris McCamic, Ottawa
15. James Goertzen, Thunder Bay, Ontario
16. Rob Anderson, Sudbury, Ontario

17. Erin Cameron, Thunder Bay, Ontario

China
Lissanthea Taylor, Shanghai

Ecuador

Jari Holland Buck

Greece

Kathi Apostolidis

France

1 Gangadhar Sulkunte
2 Mélanie Péron
3 Catherine Coste, Aix en Provence

Hungary
Bertalan Mesko, Budapest

Netherlands
Jim van den Beuken, Nijmegen Area

Kenya
Alice Mwongera

Portugal

Morgan Stanley-Kominers

Senegal

Kevin Ado

Spain
Fernando Martin-Sanchez, Madrid

South Africa
Vanessa Carter, Johannesburg

Switzerland
Christine Bienvenu, Morges

United Kingdom
1 Andrew Spong, Rustington, West Sussex, England
2  Catherine Coste, London, England
3 Jon Dowell, Scotland
4 Gina Neff, Oxford

United States of America: Districts/Commonwealths and Territories

 

1.                               Alabama
     Joe Lavelle, Fairhope

2.                              Alaska

3.                              Arizona
     Lorre Wisham, Tucson 
     Teresa Younkin 

4.                              Arkansas

      Lance Manning, Fayetteville 

5.                              California

1 Al Nikolai Kirienko- Berkley
2 Jamie Inman, Hollister
3 Christine Kraft, Los Gatos

4 Alan Greene, San Francisco

5 Matthew Holt, San Francisco

6 Katherine Arbansin, San Francisco

7 Karen Herzog, San Francisco

8 Manny Hernandez, San Francisco

9 Danielle Cass, San Francisco

10 Roni Zeiger, San Francisco

11 Amy Tenderich, SanFrancisco

12 Julia Hallisy, San Francisco
13 Ian Eslick, San Francisco
14 Chris Chan, San Francisco 
15 Richard Anderson, San Francisco
16 Christopher Snider, San Francisco

17 Alex Albin, Monterey
18 Pat Salber, Lakespur

19 Christian Liu, Los Angeles
20 Liza Bernstein, Los Angelos

21 Matthew Listiak, Los Angeles
22 Martine Ehrenclou, Los Angeles

23 Gregg Masters, San Diego

24 Katerina Jackson-Suchkova, San Diego

25 Becca Price, San Diego

26 Charles Denham, Palo Alto
27 Larry Chu, Palo Alto
28 Zoe Chu, Palo Alto (honorary)

29 Kristen Andrews, Monrovia
30 Amanda Greene, Culver City
31 Eric Topol, San Diego
32 Susan Hull, Healdsburg
33 Eileen Propp, San Ramon
34 Ellen Rose
35 Kate Munger, Inverness
36 Lori Marx-Rubiner* July 26, 1966- August 22, 2017
37 Susan Eller, Los Gatos
38 Rajiv Mehta, Mountain View
39 John Mattison, Playa
40 Teresa Masters, Oceanside * June 8, 1931- May18, 2024
41 Wen Dombrowski, LA
42 Bettina Experton, Del Mar
43 Bridget Duffy, San Francisco
44 Bryanna Gallaway, San Francisco
45 Kait B. Roe, Greenbrae
46Amanda Michelle Jones, Long Beach
47 Deven McGraw, Mountain View
48 Steven Lane, Palo Alto

6.                              Colorado

1 Kathy Nicholls, Pueblo

2 Ben Miller, Denver
3 Bart Windrum, Boulder
4 Elaine O'Bleness, Greeley
5 Adalyn, Denver
6 Fred Masoudi, Denver
7 Brian Be, Denver
8 Tracy Walsh, Basalt
9 Cathy Desautels, Carbondale
10 Erika Hanson Brown, Denver

11 Mary Anne Sterling, Denver

7.                              Connecticut
      1 Matthew Browning
      2 Randi Oster, Fairfield
      3 Alan Manning, Milford
      4 Denise Theil, Milford
      5 Steven F. Horowitz, Stamford
      6 Lisa Donnarumma, Derby

      7 Danielle Swift, Orange
      8 Kenneth Dobuler, Derby
      9 Jim Kinsey, Hamden
      10 Harlan Krumholz, New Haven
      11 Michael Bennick, Branford
      12 Frances K. Grace, Wilton
      13 Mary P. Griskewicz, Madison
      14 Jimmy weeks, New Haven

      

8.                              Delaware
      Jo Hamilton, Rehoboth Beach

9.                               

District of Columbia/Greater Washington Area

Valarie Barnes

Ann Bartlett
Dominique Beatty

Karen E. Blair
Susan Cantrell

Donna Cryer

Jodi Daniel

Jonah Daniel

Ladd Everitt

Lisa Emrich

Ted Eytan

Robert Filey

Susannah Fox
Jon Francke

Marsha Goodman-Wood

David Hale
Mary Welch Higgins

Lindsey Hoggle

Alisa Hughley

Karen Hwang
Jess Jacobs*  October 4, 1987- August 15, 2016

Leroy Jones

Nicole Kemper

Marilyn Langfeld

Howard Liebers

Courtney Mazza
Frankie
Jake Miles-McLean

Robin Miles-Mclean

Ben Merrion

Megan Mitchell
Farzad Mostashari

John O’Brien
Lauree Ostrofsky

Todd Park

Elizabeth Prevou

Abigail Pritchard
Lygeia Ricciardi

Leela 

Anita Samarth
Leila Samy

Josh Seidman

Emily Stewart

Liz Sherer

Chris Timm
Teresa Titus-Howard

Carol Torgan

Melinda Whatman

Trenor Williams

Eunita Winkey

William Wolf

Whitney Zatzkin
Caleb Picard
Erina Moriarty
Hassan Tetteh
Mike Pappas
Fred Trotter

10.                          Florida

1 Chiara Bell, Orlando

2 Carolyn Capern, Orlando
3 Coletta Dorado, Vero Beach
4 Bruce Ramshaw, Cooper City
5 Geeta Nayyar, Miami
6 Randa Peterson, Tallahassee
7 Mandi Bishop Meyers, St. Augustine
8 Andre Carbonell, Tallahassee
9 Jeri Burtchell, East Palatka
10 Trisha Torrey, Orlando
11 Catherine Berg, Destin
12 Tamara StClair, Jacksonville

11.                          Georgia

Donna Scott, Atlanta
Loran Cook, Atlanta

JoAnna Brogdon, Marietta
Allyson Burroughs, Atlanta
Bill Esslinger, Carollton
Sharon Hall, Cumming


12.                          Hawaii

  

      13. Idaho
           
            

14.                          Illinois

Michael Millenson, Chicago

Karen Curtiss, Chicago

JoAnn Klinedinst, Chicago
Martin J. Hatlie, Chicago
Paulo Machado, Chicago
Wendy White, Chicago
Kim Ball, Chicago
Gillian Cappiello, Elmhurst
Leah Grebner, Peoria
Neil Versel, Chicago
Max Stroud, Bloomington
Soojin Jun, Chicago

15.                          Indiana

Michele Behme, Indianapolis
Cathy Collet, Indianapolis
Brian Dixon, Indianapolis
Tom Krohn, Noblesville
Cherise Shockley, Indianapolis 
Gabriela Wilson, Evansville
Leigh Anne Naas, Indianapolis
Jerry Matczak* November 14, 1962-February 2, 2017
Ignacio Edlm, Indianapolis 

16.                          Iowa
     Tom Evans, Johnston
   

17.                          Kansas
     Ryan Neuhofel, Lawrence
     Corinna West, Kansas City
     Casha Mills, Manhattan 
       

18.                          Kentucky

Ted Smith, Louisville
Kathy Neider, Louisville 

19.                          Louisiana
      Catherine Fairchild, Baton Rouge
      Troy Absire Sr.,  Lake Charles 
      Melissa Stewart, St. Francisville 
      Martin Johnson, Alexandria
      Karen DeSalvo, New Orleans 

        

20.                          Maine

Andrea Littlefield, Bangor
Shelley Cohen Konrad, Portland
Sue Woods, Portland
Liam Kemp, South Portland

21.                          Maryland

Maumi JC Chatterton, Baltimore

Mark Scrimshire, Baltimore
Karen Linder-Staubs, Baltimore
Nikai, Baltimore
Deon, Baltimore
Daquane, Baltimore
Donnell Bonaparte, Baltimore
Hazel F., Baltimore
Abdur Rahim Rahmaan, Baltimore

Dennis Wagner, Baltimore
Zoe Carr, Baltimore
Tamela Mack., Baltimore
Julia Anderson, Baltimore
Marilyn Mann, Kensington
Peter Levin, Silver Spring
Kym Martin, Germantown
Taylor Martin, Germantown
Joan Holliday, Granstsville
Regina Holliday, Grantsville
Freddie Holliday, Grantsville
Isaac Holliday Grantsville
Emily Shaw, Grantsville
Mia Jones, Baltimore
Aaron Smith, Hagerstown
Nick Van Terheyden, Olney
Michael Dias, Towson
Meryl Bloomrosen, Silver Spring
Shannah Koss, Silver Spring

Carly Medosch, Baltimore
Shannon Shine, Cumberland
Christopher Closson, Cumberland
Vicky Hinebaugh, Oakland
John Hinebaugh, Oakland* May 3, 1968- December 18, 2021
Lisa Cahill Rodriguez, Frederick
Abby Bott, Odenton
Cynthia Dianne Heath, Bowie
Yael Harris, Laurel
Aaron Seib, Germantown
Janice Lynn Schuster, Riva
Debbie Swauger, Friendsville
Amy Klink, Friendsville
Genevieve Morris, Elkridge
Lisa Simpson, Bethesda

22.                          Massachusetts

      1 Keith Boone, Boston

      2 Abigail Boone, Boston

3 Alex Drane, Boston

      4 Nate Osit, Boston

      5 Janice McCallum, Boston

      6 David Harlow, Boston

      7 Don Fluckinger, Boston
      8 Alicia Staley, Boston
      9 Karen MacDonald, Boston
      10 Catherine Rose, Boston
      11 Gonzalo Bacigalupe
      12 Suzanne Carter, Boston
      13 Danny van Leeuwen
      14 Richard Corder, Ipswich
      15 Jonathan Bush, Cambridge
      16 Amy Heymans, Swampscott
      17 Liz Boehm, Cambridge
      18Tami Rich, Ashland
      19 Pat Rioux, Bolton
      20 Matt Fisher, Worcester
      21 Mandy Long, Acton
      22 Alexis Snyder

   

23.                           Michigan

Cindy Throop, Ann Arbor
      Rob Sharrow, Detroit  
      Amy Lynn Smith, Birmingham
      Leslie Rott, Southfield
      Brian Mack, Grand Rapids 
      Danna Merritt, Troy

24.                          Minnesota

Gary Oftedahl, Minneapolis

Victor Montori, Rochester
Steven Baker, Fountain
AJ Montpetit, Rochcester
Judith Zerbe, Edina

25.                          Mississippi

26.                          Missouri

1 Joe Ketcherside: Kansas City

2 Tobias Gilk, Kansas City

3 David Sides, Kansas City

4 Clay Patterson, Kansas City

5 Kourtney Govro, Kansas City
6 Ann Becker-Schutte, Kansas City
7 Brian Carter, Kansas City
8 John Spertus, Kansas City
9 Siobhan Champ-Blackwell, Kansas City
10 Aja La'Starr, St. Louis
11 Adrienne Robinson Drapper, St Louis
12 Kristi Pena, Richland

27.                          Montana

     Nick Dawson, Bozeman

28.                          Nebraska

   Carol Wahl, Kearney

29.                          Nevada 
          Jason Grattini, Las Vegas

30.                          New Hampshire
       Dave deBronkart
       Megan Sargent Grocki, Portsmouth

       Lori Nerbonne, Bow

31.                          New Jersey

1 Ileana Balcu, Woodbridge

2 Mindy Schwartz-Brown
3 Catherine Costa, Morristown
4 Michael Weiss, West Orange
5 David Dubin, Haworth

32.                          New Mexico

33.                          New York

Steven Davidson, Brooklyn 

Jason Bhan, NY

Craig Lipset,NY

Alex Fair, NY

Amy Romano, NY

Dale Ann Micalizzi, Schenectady
Emily Hackel, NY
Esther Dyson, NY

Moira Simms, NY
Sue Ribaudo, NY
Susan Frampton, NY
Mike Riz, NY
Vera Rulon, South Nyack
Anthony Ziegler, Bronx
Alice Loveys, Pittsford
Stacey Conklin, Long Beach
Benjamin Berlin, Staten Island
Riva Greenburg, Brooklyn
Kim Nazi, Coxsackie
Virginia Lorenzi, NY

John Phelan, NY

Gail Zahtz, Pomona

Marie -Michelle Strah, NY

Tzvis Berlin

34.                          North Carolina

1 Richard Payne, Durham* August 24, 1951- January 3, 2019

2 Lisa Fields, Greensborro

3 Sarah E. Kucharski, Canton

4 Liza Sisler, Raleigh-Durham 

5 Andre Blackman, Raleigh-Durham
6 Alice Hughley, Durham
7 James Spicka, Wilmington
8 Melissa Phipps, Winston-Salem
9. Todd Rowland, Chapel Hill

10 Tiffany Peterson, Raleigh

35.                          North Dakota

36.                          Ohio

1 Sunnie Southern, Cincinnati

2 Michael Seid, Cincinnati
3 Laura Kolaczkowski, Beavercreek
4 John Sharp, Cleveland Heights
5 Jenn Lonzer, Cleveland Heights
6 Sarah Cawley, Medina
7 Jenny Pettit, Philadelphia

37.                          

                    Oklahoma
John Krueger, Tulsa

      Esther Fischer, Enid* September 23, 1973- November 3, 2022
      Kimberly Hayes, Sapulpa

38.                          Oregon

1 Lizzie Dunklee, Eugene
2 Amy Birney, Eugene

3 Brian Ahier, Portland

4 Amy Fellows, Portland
5 Helen Ying, Portland
6 Jesika Gavilanes, Portland 

39.                          Pennsylvania
       

Bill Fisher, Allentown
Cindy Fisher, Allentown
Amy Edgar, Allentown
David Lee Scher, Harrisburg

Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Philadelphia

Mary Ellen Mannix

Koreen Olbrish, Philadelphia

Kate Cartwright-Knodel, Yardley
Ken Congdon, Erie
Mary Cattolico Camp, Upper Holland
Mary Beth Navarra-Sirio, Pittsburgh 
Wanda Cronrath, Kutztown
Steph Hanzl, Whitehall
Mary Jo Shields, Coopersburg 
Christine Kurtz, Catasauqua
John O'Donnell, Pittsburgh
Robb Fulks, Reading
Angela Radcliffe, Huntingdon
Rachel Fields, Huntingdon
Erin Moore, Hummelstown

40.                          Puerto Rico

Antonio Fernandez

41.                          Rhode Island

Pat Mastors, Providence
Kerri Sparling, Providence

42.                          South Carolina

Helen Haskell, Columbia
Mark Johnson, Blue Ridge

43.                          South Dakota

44.                          Tennessee

    

       1 Linda Stotsky, Nashville
       2 Jane Englebright, Nashville
       3 Jason Wolf, Nashville      
       4 Tiffani Doyle, Franklin
       5 Leslie Hayes, Dryersburg

       6 Amy Gleason, Nashville

45.                          Texas

Kenneth Wells, Houston

Joleen Chambers, Dallas
Camea Kirkpatrick, Dallas
Melissa Ariate Jarvis, Dallas

Laura Slayton, Austin
Phyllis Goetz, Grapevine
Clarence "Reggie" Williams, San Antonio
Mike Finley, Texarkana 
Liz Johnson, Grapevine
Stephen Scott, Fort Worth

46.                          Utah 

1 Michelle Litchman, Salt Lake City
2 Lauretta Sechrest, Bountiful

47.                          Vermont  

      Katie McCurdy, Burlington
      Karen Hein, Jacksonville

48.                          Virginia

Josh Rubin, Arlington
      Casey Quinlan-Richmond* August 6, 1952-April 25, 2023

David Collins, Richmond

Richard Upton, Richmond

Angela Lynn- Charlottesville 

Heidi Sitcov, Springfield
       Gayle Schrier Smith, Richmond
      Kimberley Gould Crawley, Ashburn

Robin Strongin, Arlington
      Brandon Jones, Roanoke
      Sally Okun, White Stone.         
      Ilhee Bae, Clifton
      Jan Oldenburg, Richmond

49.                          Washington

Wendy Sue Swanson, Seattle

Dana Lewis, Seattle

Leah Marcotte, Seattle
Corey Spears, Renton
Sherry Reynolds, Seattle

50.                          West Virginia

       Ross Martin, Berkeley Springs

51.                          Wisconsin
     Amy Throndsen, Madison
     Mary Drake, Verona

52.                          Wyoming