Board of Directors
President
Charles Mitchell
Vice-president, Secretary
Adair Dammann is Director of Political Strategies for SEIU Local 925, a statewide local of education and public service workers. She has more than 25 years experience in organizing, lobbying and public policy advocacy. Most of her adult life has unfolded in SEIU, organizing workers up and down the West Coast. She has lobbied on healthcare issues in Washington, Nevada and Washington DC.
In 2000, she snuck away for a year to indulge her passion for healthcare policy and obtained her Masters in Public Administration. During the legislative session, look for her under the dome in Olympia. Other months, you will find her dashing from a precinct walk to a legislative caucus to her soccer game to an evening phone bank, then back to the park and ride to meet her hiking club.
Treasurer
Robert Moore has a varied background in healthcare, dating from the Vietnam era when he spent two years as a hospital orderly in a community hospital. That experience diverted him from an intended career in newspaper journalism, which he had pursued as an undergraduate at Oregon State University. He went back to school and became a Registered Nurse, then practiced in surgery, coronary care, trauma research, and even psychiatry for about ten years at University, Harborview, Providence, and Evergreen hospitals in the Seattle area and at St. Luke’s Hospital in Bellingham. Later he moved into health administration and management, working at Labor & Industries and the Health Care Authority in Olympia before moving to Group Health Cooperative, where he helped to guide Group Health’s Basic Health Plan and Medicaid Healthy Options involvement (and first met and worked with Bob Crittenden and Janet Varon). Bob managed those contracts, as well as the state and federal employee groups, for Group Health for many years, and also represented Group Health on the state’s high-risk pool board (where he worked with Sean Corry). Bob retired from Group Health in 2008, and is in the process of inventing a new career to while away the time…
Bob lives in Wallingford and has one daughter who is a theater arts student. He has made two cross-continental trips: the first by bicycle across Canada 30 years ago, and the second touring the U.S. by motorcycle this summer, visiting family members in the southeast.
Bob Crittenden is the Executive Director of the Herndon Alliance, a coalition of over ninety national and state organizations focusing on affordable health care for all people in America. The Herndon Alliance focuses on expanding the base of people supporting affordable health care for everyone by assessing and addressing the values people hold and improving communications and policies that address those values.
He has worked for the state legislature, been a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow with Senator George Mitchell, was special assistant to Governor Gardner for health, and is a faculty member in the Departments of Family Medicine and Health Services at the University of Washington. Bob has practiced as a Family Physician for over thirty years in Central and Southeast Seattle with urban underserved people.
Lori Buchsbaum has over 20 years experience working with local, regional and international health programs in Seattle, Washington, D.C. and along the U.S.-Mexico border. She is currently a probono attorney with the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project and the King County Housing Justice Project, and is working in mediation.
Ms. Buchsbaum was Staff Attorney for Northwest Health Law Advocates (NoHLA) for four years. Prior to that she worked with” the Center for Health Training; the Washington State Department of Health, Tobacco Prevention and Control Programs; Public Health Seattle King County; Medstar/Georgetown University Hospital; the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions; the Maryland Court of Special Appeals; the Center for Medicare Advocacy; Sonnenschein, Nath and Rosenthal, LLP; the Office of Counsel to the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Development Associates; and Project Concern International. Lori received her J.D. in 2004 from American University, Washington College of Law, and a Master’s Degree in Public Health in 1991 from San Diego State University. Lori loves to travel, hike, ski, swim and “explore” with her son Max and dogs Butch and Sundance.