Our Team
Organizing Team Members
Courtney Allen
Organizer
Carol Cruz
Inclusivity Caucus Chair
Garrett Hade
Organizer
Ryan Hampton
Organizing Director
Ana Maria Hernandez
Field Organizer
Aaron Kucharski
Organizer
Advisory Board Members
Stuart Smith
Advisory Board Member
Stuart Smith is a person in long-term recovery and board chair at Foundation for Recovery in Las Vegas, NV. He has extensive board membership and management experience, as well as more than thirty years of comprehensive addiction recovery knowledge.
Pat Taylor
Advisory Board Member
Pat Taylor is the former executive director at Faces & Voices of Recovery. In this capacity, she led a nationwide campaign working to mobilize the recovery community that includes 43 million Americans affected by alcohol and other drugs.
Andre Johnson
Advisory Board Member
Andre Johnson is a person in long-term recovery and president & CEO of the Detroit Recovery Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting recovery which strengthens, rebuilds, and empowers individuals, families and communities who are experiencing co-occurring mental health challenges, and substance use disorders.
William White
Advisory Board Member
William L. White is a person in long-term recovery and Emeritus Senior Research Consultant at Chestnut Health Systems / Lighthouse Institute and past-chair of the board of Recovery Communities United. Bill has a Master’s degree in Addiction Studies and has worked full time in the addictions field since 1969 as a streetworker, counselor, clinical director, researcher and well-traveled trainer and consultant. He has authored or co-authored more than 400 articles, monographs, research reports and book chapters and 20 books.
Don Coyhis
Advisory Board Member
Don Coyhis is a person in long-term recovery and member of the Mohican Nation from the Stockbridge Munsee Reservation in Wisconsin. He is the founder and president of White Bison, a 501c(3) organization founded in 1988–dedicated to developing culturally relevant treatment, prevention, and recovery materials to support the Wellbriety Movement.
Carol McDaid
Advisory Board Member
Carol McDaid is a person in long-term recovery and serves as Principal at Capitol Decisions, Inc. Capitol Decisions has a special expertise in addiction and mental health policy. For over two decades, Carol has worked with leading addiction and mental health providers and consumer organizations to refine public policy addressing addiction and mental health.
Bob List
Advisory Board Member
Bob List is an attorney and served as the 24th Governor of Nevada from 1979 to 1983. Prior to being elected Governor, Mr. List served as district attorney of Carson City and for eight years as Attorney General of Nevada. He was Chairman of both the Western Governors Association and the Conference of Western Attorneys General.
John Shinholser
Advisory Board Member
John Shinholser is a person in long-term recovery and serves as the president of the McShin Foundation, which was founded in 2004 and named for its two recovering co-founders, John Shinholser and Carol McDaid. Shinholser and McDaid have dedicated their lives to helping individuals and families in or seeking recovery from the disease of addiction. The McShin Foundation operates on the founders’ belief that by helping others find and sustain recovery, they can better sustain their own recovery.