Our Staff

Joan Vincent, Orleans County Field Staff

Joan Vincent taught in the Orleans County school system for 22 years. She also served as the Minister for the First Congregational Church in Lyndonville for the last four years upon her retirement from teaching.

Phone: 802 525 3957

Donna Sutton Fay, Chittenden County Field Staff

Donna Sutton Fay served as Vermont’s Health Care Ombudsman for nine years. In this capacity she was responsible for administrating a program that provides direct assistance and representation to Vermonters on health care and health insurance issues; monitoring changes in state and federal practices and policies regarding health insurance; providing information to and advocating for Vermonters before state government, the Legislature, and other agencies on health care issues facing Vermonters; working with advocacy and consumer groups on systemic health care and health insurance issues.

Phone: 802 879 8604

Matthew Ennis, Addison County Field Staff

Phone: 802 453 5664

Michael Stimfel, Rutland County Outreach Staff

Michael Stimfel is a self-employed small retail business owner in Rutland for over 25 years and a USMC Vietnam Veteran.  He has formerly served on the board and executive committee of Vermont Achievement Center as a Clarendon school board member and board member for RAVNA (Rutland Area Visiting Nurses) and Kids on the Move.  Active within the community and Grace Congregational church he is a longtime supporter of  affordable universal healthcare for all.

Phone: 802 779-2720

Cathy Fitzgerald, Franklin County Outreach Staff

Cathy Fitzgerald has worked for a variety of community organizations including serving as the Director of the St. Albans Community Justice Center, the Coordinator for the Mississquoi Mentoring Project and the Juvenile Caseworker for Franklin County Court Diversion. She is also the President and co-founder of VAPOR (Vermont Advocacy for Offenders and Offender Reentry) as well as a member of the board of directors for the Samaritan House Homeless shelter and Franklin County Court Diversion.

Phone: 802 524-5012

Tiffany Silliman, Outreach Director

Tiffany Silliman is a former union organizer with the Service Employees International Union working on campaigns to organize home health care workers in Massachussetts and Arizona. Tiffany also worked on the get out the vote team in Pennsylvania of America Coming Together, a non-partisan organization which ran the largest voter contact program in history with over 1,400 full-time field canvassers for the 2004 elections.

Phone: 802 363-7886

Peter Sterling, Executive Director

Peter Sterling has 10 years of experience in media relations and grassroots organizing in Vermont. Peter has worked for various Vermont environmental organizations and consumer groups where he has run campaigns on issues including campaign finance reform, supporting family dairy farms, prescription drug price reform and protecting wilderness. Peter was also Congressman Bernie Sanders’ Campaign Manager in 2002.

In November 2005, Peter began work as the organizer of the Vermont Campaign for Health Care Security, a 21 member-group coalition, representing almost 20% of Vermont’s population that was the driving force behind the landmark health care reform law passed in Vermont's 2006 legislative session. In addition to his current work on health care reform, since May 2003, Peter has worked as the producer of Equal Time Radio, a talk radio show hosted by Anthony Pollina airing four days a week on WDEV AM/FM.

Phone: 802 279 6840