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Elizabeth Riotte is currently Assistant Corporate Secretary of Avangrid, Inc. (NYSE: AGR), a diversified energy and utility company with more than $30 billion in assets and operations in 25 states, focusing on corporate governance, securities law compliance, public disclosures, and securities filings, and providing support to the board of directors. Liz was previously an attorney at Axiom, a leading provider of tech-enabled legal services and an associate at Verrill Dana LLP in Portland, Maine and BakerHostetler LLP in Cleveland, Ohio. Liz holds a B.A. from Tufts University and a J.D. from the Case Western Reserve University School of Law School, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Case Western Reserve Law Review and graduated magna cum laude and Order of the Coif. Liz lives in Cumberland with her husband, Sam, and their two young daughters.

Lauren Jacobs worked in the field of outdoor sport education for seven years prior to joining the Kinesiology and Physical Education faculty at the University of Maine. Her thesis research investigated the way Maine elementary schools decide when students may go outside for recess and physical education classes. Prior to coming to UMaine, Lauren worked in the non-profit sector helping increase outdoor sport opportunities and access for Maine children. She also taught physical education in a PK-8 school. Lauren is a registered Maine Guide and a registered yoga instructor. Lauren is the daughter of MWL founder Linda Smith Dyer and Charlie Jacobs.

Selecca is the Director of the Maine Small Business Coalition, advocating for policies that help small businesses thrive and promote community investment. She has ten years of public policy experience and is ​​passionate about advocacy work that helps level the playing field for everyday people.

Selecca originally hails from Massachusetts and spent several years at a Boston-based government relations firm, where she worked on energy, healthcare, and food security issues. Prior to moving to Maine, she was a Policy Fellow with the IJ Clinic on Entrepreneurship at the University of Chicago Law School, where she engaged in pro bono policy advocacy on behalf of lower-income entrepreneurs.

Selecca holds an M.A. in Political Science and a B.A. in Political Science and Sociology, both from Northeastern University. In her spare time, Selecca enjoys skiing, visiting local restaurants, and spending time at the beach. She lives in York with her wife and their cat.

After growing up in southern Maine and graduating from Middlebury College, Erin Cinelli served as Executive Director of the Spannocchia Foundation for 12 years, supporting an education center and organic farm in Tuscany, and splitting her time between Italy and Maine. Since 2013, she has been the Executive Director of the Emanuel and Pauline A. Lerner Foundation, based in Portland, ME. Erin earned a Master of Public Policy and Management from the Muskie School at the University of Southern Maine in 2005, is a 2014 graduate of the Exponent Philanthropy Next Gen Fellows program and serves as Vice Chair of the Maine Philanthropy Center board. Erin and her husband Ben co-own Farmers’ Gate Market in Wales, ME and The Farm Stand in South Portland, purveyors of local, pasture-raised meats and sustainably grown produce from a network of farms in central and southern Maine.   They have 2 young children.

Samantha Paradis (they/them) has worked in healthcare for 17 years. They began as a certified nursing assistant while in high school in the St. John Valley. After many years as a bedside nurse Samantha became a Family Nurse Practitioner and has been providing primary care and substance use treatment to folks in Aroostook County. They know that all policies affect health and for that reason ran for local office in 2017. From 2017-2019 they served as the first queer and youngest mayor of Belfast, Maine.  They recently starting parenting through fostering and adoption with their spouse. They enjoy being active outside by mountaineering, running, hiking, biking, snowboarding, xc skiing, and canoeing.

Lisa has recently retired from her job of 20 years as a Senior Program Officer of the Bingham Program, a charitable endowment for Maine based at Tufts Medical Center in Boston. She managed a diverse array of projects addressing access to health care, public health policy, community health, oral health, mental health, and health professions training. Lisa was also an elected Representative in the Maine House of Representatives for six years, serving a district of five small rural towns. She served on the Legislature’s Appropriations Committee as well as the Health and Human Services Committee. She has been an officer on the Boards of Medical Care Development, Inc., the Maine Philanthropy Center, the Maine Health Access Foundation, the Maine Public Health Association, Onpoint Health Data and was the founding Chair of the Maine Center for Economic Policy. Lisa has a master’s degree in Public Health from the University of Michigan and a BA in Human Biology from Stanford University.

Malory Shaughnessy, MPPM, has over 30 years of advocacy and public policy experience. She has worked at all levels of government from legislative staff in the office of Congressman Tom Andrews in the early 1990s, to working on projects for the Maine Legislature’s Office of Policy and Legal Analysis and serving as a Cumberland County Commissioner. As a Commissioner, she served as President of the Maine County Commissioners Association and represented Maine Counties on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Counties. She was also a founding member of the Cumberland Public Health District. Nominated to Chair the Maine State Sentencing & Corrections Practices Commission by Governor Baldacci, she worked to make positive changes to Maine’s sentencing practices. Malory is currently the Executive Director of the newly merged Alliance for Addiction and Mental Health Services, Maine. Representing over 30 provider organizations, the merger created the state’s largest provider organization focused on a comprehensive and coordinated approach to meeting the needs of individuals and families burdened by the challenge of living with substance use disorders and/or mental health diagnoses. Malory received her master’s degree in Public Policy from the Muskie School of Public Service, and her BA in political science and economics from the University of Missouri. Malory also serves on the Board of Visitors for the Muskie School of Public Service. She has four grown sons and resides with her husband in Westbrook where she loves to kayak and take long walks.