Team 1 — MASS PPD FUND

Our Team

Staff and Board

Jessie Colbert

FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Jessie Colbert (she/her) is the Founder and Executive Director of the Mass. PPD Fund.

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Ashlyn Rizzo

BOARD PRESIDENT
Ashlyn Rizzo (she/her) is currently involved in logisics and supply chain management.

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Claire Levesque, MD

BOARD TREASURER
Dr. Claire Levesque (she/her) is Chief Medical Officer for Commercial Products at Point32Health.

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Dr. Lucy Chie

BOARD CLERK
Dr. Lucy Chie (she/her) is OBGYN Director at South Cove Community Health Center.

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Dr. Nicole Christian-Brathwaite

BOARD MEMBER
Dr. Nicole Christian-Brathwaite (she/her) is the CEO of Well Minds Psychiatry and Consulting Company, PLLC.

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Carolyn Coleman

BOARD MEMBER
Carolyn Coleman, MSW, (she/her) is a Social Worker and Supervisor with the Boston Public Health Commission’s Healthy Baby Healthy Child (HBHC) Program.

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Dan Healy

BOARD MEMBER

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Rep. Ellen Story

BOARD MEMBER
Ellen Story (she/her) is a former 12-term Massachusetts State Representative from the 3rd Hampshire District.

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Advisory Board

Mara Acel-Green, LICSW, Owner, Strong Roots Counseling

Rep. Jamie Belsito, Founder, Maternal Mental Health Leadership Alliance, State Representative, Fourth Essex District

Dr. Nicole Christian-Brathwaite, MD, Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatrist, CEO and Founder, Well Minds Consulting and Psychiatry, SVP and Medical Director, Array Behavioral Care

Dr. Lee Cohen, Director, Ammon-Pinizzotto Center for Women's Mental Health and Associate Chief of Psychiatry at Mass General Hospital

Suanna Selby Crowley, PhD, RPA, President, HeadFort Consulting, LLC

Soraya DosSantos, MHC, Sole Proprietor, Maternal Nurturing Collective, Birthkeeper, Birthing Project Southcoast

Liz Friedman, MFA, Co-Founder and Co-President, GPS Group Peer Support

Margaret Hannah, M.Ed, GCEC, Senior Consultant, William James College

Elizabeth Hoenscheid, CEO and Owner, Top It Off Accessories

Jen Erbe Leggett, LICSW, CEO, The Leggett Group

Marie-Frances Rivera, President, MassBudget

Nicole Rodriguez, President, New Jersey Policy Perspectives

Buffy Sheff Ross, MSW, LICSW, Clinical Social Worker, Newton-Wellesley Hospital

Dr. Michael Yogman, Pediatrician, Cambridge Hospital Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Partners

The Mass. PPD Fund’s work to support new parent mental health is only effective with the partnership of community, health care, and advocacy organizations and so many others. We are deeply grateful for these collaborating groups, including: