Laura Zeigler- zieweed@gmail.com

I grew up Long Island wanting to be in Vermont. I'm a person with multiple disabilities and granddaughter of a victim of T4  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_T4). In 1976 at age 17 I was locked up, given major psychiatric labels, promised electroconvulsive shock if I went to court, and subjected to forced neuroleptic drugging until a judge ordered it stopped. I've been active on disability rights most of my adult life, primarily psychiatric disability issues and in particular forced psychiatric drugging and electroconvulsive shock. I became involved with the organized mad movement in 1983 when I joined the mutual support and advocacy group Project Release.

 I've also been a paralegal at a law clinic/Protection and Advocacy office, monitored mental health legal proceedings, instigated and participated in a half-year homeless protest encampment outside New York City Hall, authored a chapter on psychiatric advance directives for Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry (http://www.peter-lehmann-publishing.com/), helped orient new and returning staff at the Vermont Psychiatric Care Hospital, and expressed opposition to psychiatric oppression through testimony, whistleblowing, poetry, civil disobedience and street theater. My longest affiliation is with the National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy, of which I'm a past president and present Board member emeritus. From late 1996 -- 2014 I was an activist/citizen-lobbyist at the Vermont Statehouse on issues involving disability rights, prisoners rights, advance directives and open government

Micahel Sabourin mothvet@yahoo.com

Mr. Sabourin the current board president has been associated with Another Way for close to two decades. He has previously served as board president in the past as well as a brief stint as the interim director in 2006. Though he is what one would consider a family member in the mental health world, he has long been an advocate for individuals affected by the mental health and other social systems. Mr. Sabourin is semi-retired having recently worked fourteen years as a VPS psychiatric resident/patient representative. He also had a lengthy career as a USPS letter carrier and athletic official. He also serves on the board of Disabilities Rights Vermont and in the past has been on the boards of VCDR and NEK Human Services. An advocational naturalist and lepidopterist, Mr. Sabourin is the president of the Vermont Entomological Society and is on the Stranahan Town Forest committee in Marshfield. Mr. Sabourin has written several papers on the taxonomy of the lepidoptera family tortricidae. Mr. Sabourin also currently serves as a Justice of the Peace in Marshfield, VT