The MCC Advocacy Committee develops recommendations to the MCC Board of Directors regarding the Consortium's Advocacy Agenda and venues/strategies to accomplish that agenda.

View the Advocacy Committee Charter (approved by the MCC Board of Directors Sept. 27, 2006, revised April 11, 2007; available as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file)*

Members of the current MCC Advocacy Committee include:

• Judy Stewart, BA (Chair)
  American Cancer Society, Great Lakes Division, Inc.

• Brad Burk
  American Cancer Society, Great Lakes Division, Inc.

• Linda Burghardt, MPA
  National Association of Social Workers — Michigan Chapter

• Carol Christner
  Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute

• Polly Hager, MSN, RN
  Michigan Department of Community Health

• Karen Holcomb-Merrill, BA
  Tobacco-Free Michigan

• Janet Kiley, MS
  Michigan Department of Community Health

• Grace Lyskawa, BSN, RN
  MPRO

• Bill Mayer, MD, MPH
  Michigan Primary Care Association

• Chris Mitchell
  Michigan Health & Hospital Association

• Christine Pearson, BA
  Susan G. Komen for the Cure — Greater Lansing Affiliate

• Vicki Rakowski, RN, ET
  American Cancer Society, Great Lakes Division, Inc.

• Mikelle Robinson, MS
  Michigan Department of Community Health

• Susan Schechter
  American Lung Association of Michigan

• Jerry Sims
  Prostate Cancer Coalition of Michigan

• Connie Smith, BSN, RN
  Mid-Michigan District Health Department

• Jeff Towns
  Michigan Hospice & Palliative Care Organization

• Lynn Weimeister
  William Beaumont Hospital

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