Dr. Carrie Davis is a physician board-certified in dermatology from the American Board of Dermatology in 2008 and recertified in 2018. She received her medical degree from Indiana University School of Medicine in 2004 and completed a residency in dermatology there. Dr. Davis is a member of the American Academy of Dermatology, the Indiana Academy of Dermatology, the American Medical Association, the Indiana State Medical Association, and the Monroe-Owen County Medical Society. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor for Indiana University School of Medicine, Bloomington campus. Dr. Davis has an interest in medical dermatology including complex dermatological diseases. She also is a leader and advocate on the state and national level for several medical organizations. Outside the office, she enjoys giving back to the community by participating in skin cancer screenings, advocacy efforts, and other philanthropies. Dr. Davis has two children and two goldendoodles. In her free time, she enjoys traveling, rock climbing, and tennis.

Board-certified dermatologist Chesahna Kindred, MD practices in Maryland at Kindred Hair & Skin Center — the first dermatology office with a full-service salon. Dr. Kindred is also an associate professor at Howard University Department of Dermatology in Washington, DC. She grew up in Los Angeles, earned her BS with a minor in Spanish at the University of Southern California, was the third person in the history of the University of Cincinnati to earn an MD/MBA degree, and later completed dermatology training at Howard University Department of Dermatology. She is the immediate past chair of the dermatology section of the National Medical Association and founder and president of Onyx Medical Society. Dr. Kindred is regarded by her peers as an exceptional hair loss expert and by her local community as an advocate with a powerful voice.

Kelly Turley (MSW/MA) has been an advocate with and for people experiencing homelessness and poverty since 1997. She joined the staff of the Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless in 2002, where she has served as the Associate Director since 2017. At the Coalition, Kelly convenes and collaborates with various stakeholders to develop public policy strategies to create access to homelessness prevention benefits, safety net resources, and affordable housing opportunities for families with children, unaccompanied youth, and adults throughout the Commonwealth. Her work focuses on expanding equity, dignity, and opportunity in state-funded housing and cash assistance programs and on upholding the human right to housing. In addition to her housing and homelessness advocacy, Kelly is a long-time human rights activist, serving in volunteer leadership positions within Amnesty International USA and Students for a Free Tibet International.

Jon Santiago, MD, MPH was sworn in by Governor Maura Healey and Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll as Massachusetts’ first Secretary of the Executive Office of Veterans’ Services (EOVS) on March 1, 2023. Secretary Santiago is a lifelong public servant, who brings an unwavering commitment to ensuring that Massachusetts veterans have access to services and benefits worthy of their service to our nation.

Most recently, he served as Massachusetts State Representative for the 9th Suffolk District (Boston) where he advocated to increase funding and services to address the substance use epidemic, affordable housing, and tackle health disparities. Secretary Santiago is a board-certified emergency medicine physician who practices at Boston Medical Center, the city’s safety net hospital and New England’s busiest trauma center. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, he doubled his hours in the emergency room and served as a member of the House of Representatives COVID-19 Working Group and Vice-Chair of the COVID-19 Committee to advise policymaking and ensure state government accountability.

Prior to completing medical school at Yale University, he spent five years abroad including service as Peace Corps volunteer in the Dominican Republic and a Fulbright Scholar in Paris. He is currently a Major in the United States Army Reserve and has deployed overseas twice.

Avik Chatterjee, MD, MPH has provided primary care and addiction medicine services at several shelter-based clinic sites in Boston through BHCHP since 2013. He is trained in internal medicine and pediatrics, and serves as medical director of the BHCHP clinic at the Southampton Street Shelter.

Senator Lydia Edwards is a career advocate, activist, and voice on behalf of society's most vulnerable. She was raised all over the world by her military mom but chose to make East Boston her home.

Prior to being elected to the State Senate and Boston City Council, Lydia worked extensively in the legal field. She worked as a public interest attorney with Greater Boston Legal Services focusing on labor issues such as fighting for access to unemployment insurance, back wages, fair treatment for domestic workers, and combating human trafficking and immigrant rights.

Senator Edwards coordinated a statewide campaign to pass the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights - and she won. Following the bill’s passage, she was named Bostonian of the Year, Honorable Mention, by the Boston Globe. In February 2023, Senator Edwards was named chair of the Joint Housing Committee in the MA state legislature. In addition to her role as a State Senator, she serves as First Lieutenant Officer in the Massachusetts National Guard working as a Judge Advocate General, where she addresses military legal matters. Description goes here

Denisse Mayers Paulino is the Founder and Chief Creative Officer of DEMP Agency. With a BFA in Design from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, an MBA from Northeastern University's D'Amore McKim School of Business and with over 16 years of integrated brand, agency, and design experience, she seamlessly leads projects in order to bring an organization's message to life.

Denisse has worked with companies and institutions such as Booz Allen Hamilton, Harvard University and global brands like Apple Music, YouTube & Amazon. Denisse serves as a business mentor and lecturer at the Massachusetts College of Art's Business Incubator in partnership with the City of Boston Arts & Culture Department. Also, Denisse is a partner with US Small Business Administration, a finalist in the The Latinas in Tech Startup Competition 2022 and the recipient of the 2023 Women Who Empower Innovator Awards. Denisse also serves as an Advisory Board Member for Hackrah Media.

Lisa Albany is the Director of State Policy for the American Academy of Dermatology Association. In this role, she develops and directs a comprehensive program for addressing state legislative and regulatory activities affecting dermatology nationwide. Working with state and national medical specialties, the American Medical Association, state medical societies, and patient groups, Ms. Albany has spent two decades advocating for physicians and patients.

Ms. Albany earned her Juris Doctor from Widener University School of Law and Bachelor of Arts from the University of Delaware.

Hussain Lalani, MD MPH MSc is an associate physician and general primary care internist at the Phyllis Jen Center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is an instructor of medicine, part-time, at Harvard Medical School in the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care. Hussain was most recently a health policy researcher at the Program on Regulation, Therapeutics, and Law (PORTAL), in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmaeconomics. His research focused on understanding the challenges and inequities patients face in accessing affordable prescription drugs and evaluating the impact of federal and state policies on health. He also advised multiple states in the implementation of Prescription Drug Affordability Boards (PDABs), an innovative state policy that aims to lower the cost of select, high-cost prescription drugs.