List of Community Advisory Council Members

The 2024-2025 CDCI Community Advisory Council

CAC Co-Chairs

  • Michael Shor, self-advocate and psychotherapist with autism
  • Ocean Streeter, self-advocate

CAC Members

  • Melissa Merotta Houser, physician with autism and family member of someone with a disability
  • Kristofor Medina, self-advocate
  • Skye Peebles, family member of a Vermonter with a disability
  • Persephone Ringgenberg, self-advocate
  • Summer Stelter, self-advocate

Vermont Developmental Disabilities Network Representatives

  • [vacant], Green Mountain Self-Advocates
  • Kirsten Murphy, director, Vermont Developmental Disabilities Council
  • Lindsey Owen, director, Disability Rights Vermont

CDCI Representatives

  • Jesse Suter, CDCI Executive Director
  • Rachel Cronin, CDCI Assistant Director
  • Audrey Homan, CDCI Communications Manager
  • Winnie Looby, CDCI Academics Coordinator
  • Maureen Nevers, CDCI Community Services Coordinator

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
  • Matthew LeFluer, self-advocae
  • 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