Board of Directors
President
Sean Corry is a principal shareholder and Vice President of Sprague Israel Giles, Inc., a well-established Seattle based insurance brokerage firm. He runs the employee benefits department and works with insurance committees, employers, employees and their families to navigate the world of health insurance and employee benefits.
Sean is a strong consumer advocate.He serves on the board of the Mental Health Parity Coalition as Public Education Chair, served as a Governor-appointed consumer representative and Vice Chair of the Washington State Health Insurance Pool, and is past board president of Boyer Children’s Clinic, a non-profit organization serving children with neuromuscular disorders. He represented consumers on the Washington State Insurance Commissioner's Let’s Get Washington Covered Task Force, as part of the Washington Artists Health Insurance Project (WAHIP) advisory group seeking health care access solutions for the arts community, and as a member of the Healthy Washington Coalition. Sean has worked to pass legislation requiring mental health parity and insurance coverage for children with birth disorders including phenylketonuria (PKU), sickle cell anemia, and neurodevelopmental disabilities.
Vice-president, Secretary
Daniel Gross is a staff attorney with the Defender Association of Seattle/King County, where he is the defense counsel designated to represent clients in the new King County Mental Health Court. Only the second “mental health” court in the nation, this project is aimed at assisting mentally ill persons charged with misdemeanors to access enhanced mental health services in the community and end their unnecessary incarceration and involvement with the criminal justice system.
Previously, Daniel represented clients in Juvenile Court, Municipal Court and in Superior Court civil commitment proceedings. Daniel received a Public Service Foundation Fellowship, after graduating from New York University Law School, to advocate for persons civilly committed to psychiatric hospitals concerning the conditions of their care and detention. In this position, he successfully argued to the Washington Supreme Court that state law requires judicial review of the involuntary commitment of adolescents when committed by their parents -- State ex rel T.B. v. CPC Fairfax Hospital. He has also worked on mental health issues with the California Protection and Advocacy System and New York Mental Hygiene Legal Services.
Treasurer
Robert Moore has a varied background in healthcare, dating from the Vietnam era when he spent two years as a hospital orderly in a community hospital. That experience diverted him from an intended career in newspaper journalism, which he had pursued as an undergraduate at Oregon State University. He went back to school and became a Registered Nurse, then practiced in surgery, coronary care, trauma research, and even psychiatry for about ten years at University, Harborview, Providence, and Evergreen hospitals in the Seattle area and at St. Luke’s Hospital in Bellingham. Later he moved into health administration and management, working at Labor & Industries and the Health Care Authority in Olympia before moving to Group Health Cooperative, where he helped to guide Group Health’s Basic Health Plan and Medicaid Healthy Options involvement (and first met and worked with Bob Crittenden and Janet Varon). Bob managed those contracts, as well as the state and federal employee groups, for Group Health for many years, and also represented Group Health on the state’s high-risk pool board (where he worked with Sean Corry). Bob retired from Group Health in 2008, and is in the process of inventing a new career to while away the time…
Bob lives in Wallingford and has one daughter who is a theater arts student. He has made two cross-continental trips: the first by bicycle across Canada 30 years ago, and the second touring the U.S. by motorcycle this summer, visiting family members in the southeast.
Bob Crittenden is the Executive Director of the Herndon Alliance, a coalition of over ninety national and state organizations focusing on affordable health care for all people in America. The Herndon Alliance focuses on expanding the base of people supporting affordable health care for everyone by assessing and addressing the values people hold and improving communications and policies that address those values.
He has worked for the state legislature, been a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow with Senator George Mitchell, was special assistant to Governor Gardner for health, and is a faculty member in the Departments of Family Medicine and Health Services at the University of Washington. Bob has practiced as a Family Physician for over thirty years in Central and Southeast Seattle with urban underserved people.
Adair Dammann is Director of Political Strategies for SEIU Local 925, a statewide local of education and public service workers. She has more than 25 years experience in organizing, lobbying and public policy advocacy. Most of her adult life has unfolded in SEIU, organizing workers up and down the West Coast. She has lobbied on healthcare issues in Washington, Nevada and Washington DC.
In 2000, she snuck away for a year to indulge her passion for healthcare policy and obtained her Masters in Public Administration. During the legislative session, look for her under the dome in Olympia. Other months, you will find her dashing from a precinct walk to a legislative caucus to her soccer game to an evening phone bank, then back to the park and ride to meet her hiking club.
Leslie Sutton has been a staff attorney at the Yakima office of the Northwest Justice Project since 2006. Leslie ’s practice focuses on public assistance for low-income beneficiaries, particularly cash, food and medical benefits. She also works in the Social Security and public housing arenas and drafts wills for Native American clients with Indian trust land. In her free time, Leslie enjoys spinning yarn on her spinning wheel, knitting, running and skiing.