Meet The Team

The Island is special not only because of its unique landscape but because of the unique cast of characters who inhabit and sustain it. School teachers and social workers, firefighters and first responders, farmers and fishermen, nurses and nannies, municipal workers and mechanics, truck drivers and technicians, artists and arborists, plumbers and plasterers, carpenters and curmudgeons, those of different ages, abilities, incomes, colors, religious beliefs, and gender identities - we need all of these people in order to maintain a living, breathing community, and seek to have them represented in our campaign.

Steering Committee

  • Julie Fay

    Co-Chair

  • Arielle Faria

    Co-Chair

  • John Abrams

  • Kim Angell

  • Caitlin Burbidge

  • Allison Cameron Parry

  • Sandra Grymes

  • Morgan Hodgson

  • Brook Katzen

  • Toni Kauffman

  • Jonah Maidoff

  • Elaine Miller

  • Mitzi Pratt

  • Kate Putnam

  • Doug Ruskin

  • Kira Sullivan

  • Tobias Vanderhoop

  • Abbie Zell

Staff

  • Caroline Drogin

    Coalition Administrator

Governmental Designees

  • Juli Vanderhoop

    Aquinnah Select Board

  • Designee TBD

    Chilmark Select Board

  • Michael Donaroma

    Edgartown Select Board

  • Gail Barmakian

    Oak Bluffs Select Board

  • Designee TBD

    Tisbury Select Board

  • Skipper Manter

    West Tisbury Select Board

  • Doug Ruskin

    Dukes County Commission

  • Laura Silber

    MV Commission

  • Michael Kim

    MV Commission

  • Kristina Hook

    Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah)

The Coalition