Current Members of the CDCI Community Advisory Council

 

2023-2024 Co-Chairs
A smiling white man in his sixties, wearing headphones and seated in front of a microphoneMel Houser: a fair-skinned woman with chestnut-brown eyes and hair cut in a neat bob, smiling close-mouthed at the camera

David Frye

self-advocate

Melissa Houser

Autistic physician, family member of a Vermonter with a disability

 

 

Current Community Advisory Council Members

  • Matthew LeFluer, self-advocate
  • Kristofor Medina, self-advocate
  • Skye Peebles, family member of a Vermonter with a disability
  • Persephone Ringgenberg, self-advocate
  • Arlene Seiler, self-advocate
  • Michael Shor, self-advocate and psychotherapist with autism

Developmental Disabilities Network Representatives

  • Hasan Ko, self-advocate, Green Mountain Self-Advocates
  • Kirsten Murphy, director, Vermont Developmental Disabilities Council
  • Lindsey Owen, director, Disability Rights Vermont


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About being on the Community Advisory Council

Vermonters with disabilities and their family members can serve on the CDCI Community Advisory Council. You must be 18 years or older and live in Vermont. Each member of the Council serves for two years.

Learn more about joining the Community Advisory Council

Apply to join the Community Advisory Council

Past Community Advisory Council Members

  • Max Barrows, self-advocate, Green Mountain Self-Advocates
  • June Bascom, director, Vermont Developmental Disabilities Services Division
  • Mary Alice Favro, VT LEND Clinical Director & Associate Training Director, Speech-Language Pathology Faculty
  • Amber Fulcher, former UVM 504 Coordinator
  • Sharon Henault
  • Françoise Kahindo
  • Deborah Lisi-Baker, former director, CDCI
  • Randy Lizotte, self-advocate, Green Mountain Self-Advocates
  • Lisa Maynes, State of Vermont
  • Ed Paquin, former director, Disability Rights Vermont
  • Rene Pellerin
  • Karen Price, family member of a Vermonter with a disability
  • Meagan Roy, family member of a Vermonter with a disability
  • Liliane Savard, director, UVM Autism Collaborative
  • Olivia Smith-Hammond, Vermont Family Network
  • Karen Topper, director, Green-Mountain Self-Advocates
  • Nicole Villemaire, self-advocate and disability researcher