Staff
Michele D. Merritt, Esq.
Michele Merritt has overall leadership and management responsibility for New Futures. With the Board of Directors, she establishes the strategic priorities for the organization...
April Arel
April Arel manages all operational and financial components of New Futures including but not limited to, organizational financial management and budgeting, management of shared service contracts, ...
Jake Berry
Jake manages the organization’s policy efforts, providing expertise and management in healthcare, substance use, and early childhood policy.
Kate Frey
Kate serves as Vice President of Advocacy of the organization and has primary responsibility of directing and managing New Futures’ alcohol and other drug policy initiatives.
Meghan Farrell
Meghan is responsible for managing the community engagement team in encouraging advocates to participate in the legislative process.
Holly Stevens, Esq.
Holly Stevens convenes and collaborates with staff, contracted partners, and stakeholders in the health field to agree on policy priorities, and to develop and implement a comprehensive...
Rebecca Woitkowski, Esq.
Rebecca serves as the Kids Count Policy Coordinator for New Futures. She works to coordinate and lead early childhood policy and advocacy efforts in New Hampshire.
Becky Whitley, Esq.
Becky leads the policy and advocacy efforts of the NH Children’s Behavioral Health Collaborative (CBHC), a system transformation project housed at New Futures.
Bobbie Burgess
Bobbie is responsible for managing all communications planning and content creation for New Futures' ongoing campaign advocacy. She maintains the organization's digital platforms, as well as...
Alisha Proctor
Alisha assists with communications planning and content creation for New Futures' ongoing and campaign advocacy. She is primarily responsible for assisting with the organization's digital...
Jess Wojenski
Jess is responsible for recruiting, training, and mobilizing advocates to participate in the legislative process. She also manages New Futures training program including...
Katie Foster
Katie is responsible for recruiting and training advocates to participate in the legislative process. She also manages New Futures databases and provides technical expertise to...
Pedro Altagracia
Pedro is responsible for recruiting and training advocates to participate in the legislative process.
Dane Levis
Dane is responsible for recruiting and training advocates to participate in the legislative process.
Martha McLeod
Martha McLeod is the community engagement coordinator for the NH Alliance for Healthy Aging (AHA) for New Futures. She works to engage, train, and mobilize older adults in advocacy efforts to...
Dellie Champagne
Dellie is the Community Engagement Coordinator for the NH Children’s Behavioral Health Collaborative. Dellie’s work includes education, outreach and relationship building with...
Jill Billow
Jill supports the New Futures staff by performing a variety of general office activities and providing bookkeeping support to ensure efficient functioning of the office and...