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Board President

Caitlin is the Director of Social Work Programs at Saint Joseph’s College of Maine. Caitlin’s work in higher education is focused on workforce development for the social service sector. She is dedicated to equipping the next generation of social workers with advocacy skills and tools to help clients navigate complex systems like healthcare and social services, and to effect positive change within those systems. Prior to becoming an educator, Caitlin worked in various roles at Frannie Peabody Center, including as a case manager and later as Director of Client Services and Operations. Many of the lessons Caitlin learned at Frannie Peabody Center are reflected in her teaching today, including the importance of harm reduction, client-centered services, and unconditional positive regard.

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Board Vice President

Peter is a Navy Veteran and past director of AIDS service Foundation in Marshfield Massachusetts, who has volunteered for various AIDS service organizations for over a decade, including as volunteer instructor for the AIDS Agency in Orlando. He also worked to develop a program called NFL (necessities for living), for clients at a Gainesville AIDS service organization, which was a program that supplied items that food stamps did not cover such as paper towels, light bulbs, Band-Aids, toilet paper laundry soap, etc. Peter has been volunteering his time and expertise to Frannie Peabody Center for years, and loves to fundraise for and  participate in the annual Southern Maine AIDS Walk with his partner. 

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Board Treasurer

Michael is The Senior director of Enterprise Applications at Bluebird Bio in Cambridge, MA, a company committed to developing transformative gene therapies for severe genetic diseases and T cell-based immunotherapies. Mike previously held positions at Kite, a Gilead Company in Santa Monica, CA, Celgene and at Juno Therapeutics, in Seattle, WA, where he consulted in cell therapy operation strategy. When Mike is not working, traveling or volunteering he enjoys living between Central, MA and Ogunquit, ME with his partner Domenic and all the kids

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Board Secretary

Paul Andrews has worked as an  executive in the private and non-profit sectors. Most recently, he led a private non-profit high school through the strategic planning process and subsequent plan deployment. In the private sector of financial services, led the alignment of the Human Resources function with strategic initiatives by partnering with business units to create a high performing organization.  During his retirement, he uses his business expertise and knowledge to support the his local community and state. 

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Patrick currently works as a business development manager and closing agent at Cohen Closing & Title.  He previously served as the fundraising chair of Pride Portland! when that organization was founded in 2014. This role lead to his introduction to the Frannie Peabody Center via the Southern Maine AIDS walk, which he has been supportive of ever since.  Patrick serves on numerous boards and committees within the real estate industry in Southern Maine.  Patrick resides in the West End of Portland and when not working or volunteering enjoys all that Portland has to offer.

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Currently, Justin is the Marketing Director at MPC Solutions, a software company that helps wireless retailers unify their digital content. Previously, he served as the Director of Marketing Communications at Cohere Health, a health-tech company that partners with health insurance plans to streamline the prior authorization process. Before that, Justin was the Marketing Strategy Manager at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care in Portland, where he developed marketing, communications, and advertising strategies to enhance the company’s brand awareness.

 Prior to his work in health care, Justin served as Deputy Chief of Staff to U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen in Washington, D.C., advising the Senator on a broad range of political, operational, and management matters.

 Justin and his partner, David, reside in Cape Elizabeth. An avid swimmer, he spends much of his free time in the pool or the open waters off Maine’s coastline. When on dry land, he enjoys exploring the state's culinary scene and walking the beaches of southern Maine with David.

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Sue is retired home administrator, with experience in the for-profit and non-profit sectors. She began her career as a social worker working with the elderly in the community. Her first fundraising experience was raising money for her bike ride from Boston to New York , to raise money and awareness of AIDS. She continues to raise money and volunteer for various causes .

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Lauren Gauthier serves as the Western District Public Health Liaison for Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Lauren previously served as the Program Director overseeing the HIV/STD, viral hepatitis, tuberculosis, and harm reduction programs for Maine. Though having worked in New England for 5 years, Lauren has been in the HIV/STD field for over 14 years. Much of her work in the field focused on improving health care access and HIV prevention and care in young Black LGBTQ+ individuals in New Orleans, Louisiana. Lauren is passionate advocate for those in marginalized communities and is energized most when getting to talk directly with clients and community in Maine. As a born and raised Louisianan she is happy to call Maine home. She enjoys watching sports, swimming, stained glass, and spending time with her wife and growing toddlers.

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Molly is a lawyer and shareholder at Bernstein Shur, specializing in healthcare law, employee benefits, and regulatory compliance. With extensive experience advising healthcare providers and employers on complex legal and policy matters, she brings invaluable healthcare and legal expertise to the Board.

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Theo is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Bowdoin College.  His research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of sexuality, urbanism, and culture.  His award-winning research broadly uses sexual communities to understand how urban redevelopment shape and reconfigure how individuals conceptualize, identify to, and participate in local communities. His current book project, entitled Not in MY Gayborhood: Gay Neighborhoods and the Rise of the Vicarious Citizen (under contract with Columbia University Press) explores the persistence of iconic gay neighborhoods in Washington, DC through ephemeral acts of placemaking by nonresidential community actors (vicarious citizens).  Greene has also begun research on queer placemaking in Portland, Maine, which will also culminate in a digital archive historically tracing Portland’s queer geographies. He also hopes to incorporate Portland and Maine in future research on placemaking and the production of queer communities in resort towns.

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KJ is a lifelong Maine resident and proud member of the Portland area's queer and trans community. Their work in activism includes LGBTQ health equity, non-profit development, mass communications, literacy access, and IT. They currently serve as chair of the Maine Transgender Network (MTN)'s wellness working team, which directs the organization's health equity, education, access, and policy advocacy. A graduate of Smith College where they studied Medical Anthropology and Latin American Studies, they are currently pursuing a career shift to public health. In their downtime, KJ enjoys hiking, traveling, playing in an orchestra, and scuba diving.

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​Matthew is retired with extensive experience in education, nonprofit leadership, and community service, including serving as Head of School at multiple institutions. He is an active volunteer, contributing to the State of Maine’s HIV/AIDS Advisory Committee, the Maine HIV/AIDS Advisory Board, and as Chair of the Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust.

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Caroline is the Co-Director of U.S. Business Action to End HIV, a coalition of private-sector organizations committed to filling gaps and accelerating progress to help end the HIV epidemic in the U.S. Established in 2022, the initiative has mobilized over 100 employers to take steps to close gaps in awareness, prevention, and treatment of HIV. Coalition members span industries such as energy, healthcare, technology, consulting, entertainment, digital services, insurance, human resources, and retail.

Prior to this role, Caroline spent 15 years at KFF on the Social Impact Media team where she led the creative development and production of the foundation’s primary public information response to the domestic HIV epidemic. She also managed ongoing partnerships and sexual health campaigns with national media companies and corporations like MTV, BET, Univision, Fox, Walgreens, and the NBA.

Caroline holds a Master’s degree in Strategic Communication from American University and a Bachelor's degree in Sociology from Dickinson College. She lives in Falmouth, Maine, with her husband and three children.

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Sarah is a capacity-builder at Maine Access Immigrant Network (MAIN), an ethnic community-based and community health worker organization in Portland, which has earned national and international recognition for its public health initiatives. Sarah also serves on the Maine HIV Advisory Committee and as a Board member of the Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition (MIRC) in Portland. Prior to working in Maine, Sarah worked with the World Health Organization Collaborating Center in Pharmaceutical Policy on projects in Ghana, China, and Switzerland, provided capacity-building consultation to nonprofits in Boston and New York City, worked on a cervical cancer health campaign with Grounds For Health in Matagalpa, Nicaragua, and has experience serving with several legislative teams in Washington, DC, and Maine.

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Deborah has been involved in working with people with HIV/AIDS since the late 1980s. She served as staff attorney at Harvard’s AIDS Law Clinic before moving to Portland to serve as Director of the AIDS Project, the AIDS Lodging House and worked as a policy analyst in Maine CDC’s HIV/AIDS department. She had the privilege of knowing Frannie Peabody and helping her pick out her signature boa for the Pride day parade.   Deborah has been the director of public health and LGBTQIA+ advocacy organizations in Boston and recently returned to Portland as the Director of Graduate Programs in Public Health at UNE. She has been an activist since high school.

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Tiffany is a nurse practitioner who treats hepatitis B, hepatitis C, HIV, and substance use disorder, in addition to providing PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) and PEP (post exposure prophylaxis) to those at risk of acquiring HIV. She is certified through the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, and earned her HIV Specialist certification through the American Academy of HIV Medicine. She is very active in educating other medical professionals about HIV and viral hepatitis, and is a member of the Medical Advisory Committee for the New England Division of the American Liver Foundation. She was born & raised in Maine, and enjoys many outdoor activities with her wife and yellow lab, including skiing, kayaking, swimming, and downhill mountain biking.