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ANR/F SPEAKERS

Cynthia Hallett, MPH, is the President & CEO of Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights (ANR) and the ANR Foundation, where she’s worked since 1997. Cynthia has spearheaded successful smokefree air campaigns, tracked and exposed tobacco industry interference, served as a media spokesperson ... read more
Cynthia Hallett
Cynthia Hallett
ANR/F President & CEO
Bronson Frick is Director of Advocacy of Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights and the American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation, where he provides technical assistance and training for coalitions and public health advocates working throughout the country on tobacco policy issues, particularly clean indoor ... read more
Bronson Frick
Bronson Frick
ANR/F Director of Advocacy
Char Day is the Program & Training Specialist for Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights and the ANR Foundation providing technical assistance in support for smokefree policies. She has been involved in tobacco control since 1993. Char’s background in the field of tobacco advocacy work includes building coalitions, ... read more
Traci Kennedy has been fighting for smokefree air since she she testified at her first City Council meeting as a high school student. In her current role as the Midwest States Strategist for the American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation, she works in a challenging 13 state territory at the local and statewide level ... read more
Traci Kennedy
Traci Kennedy
ANR/F Midwest States Strategist
Onjewel Smith has worked in the nonprofit sector for more than 20 years helping organizations and communities build their capacity for sustainable change. She has conducted sessions on grassroots advocacy, coalition building, strategic planning, and fundraising. Throughout her career, she has ... read more
Onjewel Smith
Onjewel Smith
ANR/F Southern States Strategist
Liz Williams is Project & Policy Manager with the American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation, where she provides technical assistance support to public health professionals, advocates, and the public on issues related to secondhand smoke and smokefree policy change efforts ... read more
Liz Williams
Liz Williams
ANR/F Project & Policy Manager
Laura Walpert has served the ANR Foundation as a Policy Analyst on the Ordinance Database Team since 2009. In that time, she has analyzed several thousand tobacco control laws and policies of all flavors for the organization’s Laws and College Campus Databases. She provides the resulting data directly to researchers, advocates, health departments, and ... read more
Laura Walpert
Laura Walpert
ANR/F Senior Policy Analyst
Clinton Isham is a citizen of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians and led a statewide commercial-tobacco prevention and control program for the 11 Tribes in Wisconsin. Clinton leads a national campaign for commercial-tobacco smokefree Tribal governments and casinos as the Tribal Relations Consultant for the American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation.
Clinton Isham
Clinton Isham
ANR/F Tribal Relations Consultant
Raegan A. Carter is a public health, public policy, and public affairs consultant. She is a graduate of Southern University in Baton Rouge where she obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Social Work. She is also a graduate of Tulane University where she obtained both a Master of Social Work degree and a Master of Public Health degree. Raegan works on the national, ... read more
Raegan A. Carter
Raegan A. Carter
ANR/F Consultant
Lyan Joy Pernala has spent over a decade helping socially impactful nonprofit organizations better help underserved and underrepresented people by building partnerships, negotiating contracts and grant agreements, communicating with stakeholders, as well as streamlining operations and programs. She’s worked to increase access to higher educational and affordable ... read more
Lyan Joy Pernala
Lyan Joy Pernala
ANR/F Associate Director, Strategic Partnerships
Danny O’Halloran is a consultant for the ANR Foundation managing the campaign for smokefree casinos in New Jersey. Danny has managed campaigns across the country including for a member of congress, mayor, and candidate for secretary of state. In the 2020 presidential campaign cycle, he was Senator Cory Booker's political director in New Hampshire during the primary.
Danny O’Halloran
Danny O'Halloran
ANR/F Consultant
Chris Moyer is a communications consultant for the ANR Foundation with a focus on smokefree casinos.
Chris Moyer
Chris Moyer
ANR/F Consultant

GUEST SPEAKERS

Dr. Bob Vollinger is the Senior Policy Advisor in the Policy, Planning and Coordination Unit of the Office on Smoking and Health (OSH) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He provides leadership on policy, partnerships, planning, media relations, strategic messaging, and other major initiatives to support OSH’s tobacco prevention and control priorities ... read more
Dr. Bob Vollinger
Dr. Bob Vollinger
Office on Smoking and Health (OSH)
Dr. Suzaynn Schick is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, the Associate Director of the Human Exposure Laboratory, and a member of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education and the Helen Diller Cancer Center. Dr. Schick studies the health effects ... read more
Dr. Suzyann Schick
Dr. Suzaynn Schick
University of California, San Francisco
Hershel Clark, MPH, a citizen of the Navajo Nation, is a program supervisor for the Southwest Tobacco Navajo Education Prevention Program. With a Bachelor’s degree in American Indian Studies and a Masters in Public Health degree, Mr. Clark is using his skill sets to demonstrate how colonialistic approaches, including Federal Indian policies, have led to the high rates of commercial ... read more
Hershel Clark, MPH
Hershel Clark, MPH
Southwest Tobacco Navajo Education Prevention Program
Artist, entrepreneur, and lobbyist Jamie Kent has forged a unique path of his own through the music industry over the last decade. He's been called an "Artist You Need To Know" by Rolling Stone, and dubbed one of the "Most Fascinating People of 2020" by Nashville Lifestyles Magazine. As an artist, he has notched over ... read more
Jamie Kent
Jamie Kent
Artist
Brandon Halleck is the COO of Chances And Services for Youth (CASY) an organization he’s served for more than 20 years. Brandon is the ultimate community advocate and his leadership of the Tobacco Free Vigo coalition successfully protected the integrity of the local smokefree law with a proposed casino project underway.  
Brandon Halleck
Brandon Halleck
Chances And Services for Youth (CASY)
Gregory Powell is the owner of Social Bike Rides, LLC - a Bike Tours & Events company based in Shreveport, Louisiana. A native of Shreveport, Gregory curates unique opportunities for locals and tourists to experience the history and culture of Louisiana on guided bicycle tours. SB Rides offers tours throughout Louisiana and Texas ... read more
Gregory Powell
Gregory Powell
Social Bike Rides, LLC
Mark Meaney, J.D., MA, leads a team of attorneys working to support tobacco control policy change throughout the United States by providing legal technical assistance to public health professionals and advocates, developing resources on the most effective legal and policy measures to reduce the burden of disease and death caused by tobacco use in the United States, and providing strategic leadership around bold policy options to end the tobacco epidemic.
Mark Meaney
Mark Meaney
Public Health Law Center
Dr. Patricia Nez Henderson, a member of the Dine’ (Navajo) tribe, received her Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry from the University of Arizona and earned her Master of Public Health degree from Yale University. In May 2000 Dr. Patricia Nez Henderson was the first American Indian woman to graduate from Yale University School of Medicine and was the first to receive the Patricia Nez Award from Yale University School of Medicine, an annual award given ... read more
Dr. Patricia Nez Henderson
Dr. Patricia Nez Henderson
Air is Life Coalition
Thomas Walker, Jr. is the Navajo Nation Delegate representing: (Cameron, Coalmine Canyon, Birdsprings, Leupp, Tolani Lake)

Maternal Clan: Áshįįhíí

Paternal Clan: Bįįh nitoodnii

Maternal Grandfather: Tótsohníí

Paternal Grandfather: Tsé deeshgizhníí

Hometown: Tsidi To ii, Arizona
Navajo Nation Honorable Delegate Thomas Walker Jr.
Thomas Walker, Jr.
Honorable Delegate, Navajo Nation
Jeanie Donovan is a health policy expert who has a passion for working in government to improve health outcomes, with a focus on improving health equity and social justice. Currently, Jeanie serves as the Deputy Director of the New Orleans Health Department, where she manages all policy matters across the department. ... read more
Jeanie Donovan
Jeanie Donovan
New Orleans Health Department
Jim D. Martin, M.S., is Director of Policy and Programs with the NC Tobacco Prevention and Control Branch (TPCB), Division of Public Health, NC Department of Health and Human Services. Jim’s major responsibilities include providing statewide leadership and expertise on tobacco use prevention and ... read more
Jim D. Martin
Jim D. Martin
NC Tobacco Prevention and Control Branch
Sarah Babcock, MPH, is a Chief Administrative Assistant for Jefferson Parish and oversees all public health initiatives. In this role, she is coordinating the COVID-19 response, assessing community health needs within Jefferson Parish and assisting to create a more robust emergency preparedness program to better ... read more
Sarah Babcock
Sarah Babcock
Jefferson Parish, Lousiana
Thomas Rotering, MPH is an Aassociate Research Specialist working with the UCSF School of Pharmacy and the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education. Thomas lives in Colorado, where he graduated with a Master’s degree from the University of Colorado, School of Public Health, in Denver, and also holds an undergraduate degree in Biology from ... read more
Thomas Rotering
Thomas Rotering
University of California San Francisco (UCSF)
Bob Curry has administered Tobacco Prevention Programs in several different job opportunities for the past 29 years. Bob began his tobacco control work as Regional Program Director of the North Coast Tobacco Prevention Network where he implemented and managed a six-county program through the Sonoma County Office of Education. In 2002 Bob joined the team at Marin County Health ... read more
Bob Curry
Bob Curry
Marin County Health and Human Services
Greg Puckett Greg Puckett is a native southern West Virginian with a passion for community! As an alumnus of Princeton Senior High School and Concord College, Greg has worked diligently with communities across the country to bring in special projects and initiatives in the hopes of preventing the use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs amongst youth and their families. He has also been an ... read more
Greg Puckett
Greg Puckett
Mercer County, West Virginia
Jeremy Kourvelas, MPH is a master's candidate from the Department of Public Health at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Vice President of the Public Health Student Association. He has worked with the SMART Policy Network, Prevention Alliance of Tennessee, and the Mental Health Association of East Tennessee in advocating for evidence-based policy on matters of substance use disorder and mental health, especially as it pertains to primary prevention.
Jeremy Kourvelas, MPH
Jeremy Kourvelas
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Department of Public Health
Juliana Frederick Curry has over 16 years of experience in state and national grassroots organizing, direct lobbying, campaign planning and execution, fundraising and volunteer management. Juliana began her career with the American Cancer Society as a project manager, quickly transitioning to Grassroots Manager for the state of West Virginia for the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) then served as the Government Relations Director and successfully led campaigns to... read more
Juliana Frederick Curry
Juliana Frederick Curry
Chair, Coalition for Tobacco Free West Virginia
Pete Naccarelli Pete Naccarelli is the co-founder of CEASE: “I have been working in the table games department of the casino industry for 26 years, enduring the effects of second-hand smoke throughout my entire career. When the Covid pandemic hit, and smoking was temporarily forbidden in casinos, it was a breath of fresh air…literally! After smoking was allowed to return, a small group. . This small group became over 2,000 strong and we are all now fighting to get smoking banned, permanently... read more
Pete Naccarelli
Pete Naccarelli
Co-Founder, CEASE
Michael Tynan is a lead public health analyst at the Office on Smoking and Health (OSH) at CDC. Michael is a member of the OSH policy team and works with states and communities on various policy issues including smoke-free policies and cannabis/tobacco overlap. Michael previously served as the Policy Officer with the Oregon Public Health Division where he also led the development of public health administrative rules on cannabis legalization.
Michael Tynan
Michael Tynan
Office on Smoking and Health (OSH)
Dr. Wayne Ott Wayne R. Ott, Ph.D., is Adjunct Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University. For 30 years, he worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as a research scientist, developing and applying new techniques for measuring human exposure to air pollutants. In 1996, he joined Stanford University, where he continued his research on developing techniques for measuring and predicting human exposure to air pollution ... read more
Dr. Wayne Ott
Dr. Wayne Ott
Stanford University
Michael Mumper Michael is Director of Programs for Drug Free Fayette, a prevention coalition in metro Atlanta, Georgia.  He is also Executive Director of Georgians for Responsible Marijuana Policy, and President of the Georgia Alcohol Policy Alliance.   Michael earned an MBA from Emory University, and led business management teams at GE Capital, Random House and Turner Broadcasting before shifting to prevention, coalition building, and policy.
Michael Mumper
Director of Programs for Drug Free Fayette
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