It is vital for people with lived experience to play an active role in shaping the field of complex care. Amplify, our consumer voices bureau, was created to increase opportunities for organizations across the country to include the voices and perspectives of people with lived experience of complex health and social needs in their work. While most speakers bureaus focus exclusively on providing experts to speak at events, it is important to note that our lived experience experts can play a valuable role in other capacities, such as participating in convenings, conferences, advisory boards, program design, evaluation, consulting, research, policy initiatives, and other project work, as well as speaking. You can find examples of Amplify partnerships here.
We ask that all organizations who connect to consumers through Amplify first download our values statement, which lists principles for authentic and empowering consumer engagement, and commit to actualizing these principles to the greatest extent possible in your work.
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Consumer profiles
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Alayna Tillman
Consumer advocacy, caregiving and support for caregivers, Alzheimer’s disease, dementia and memory loss, older adults and aging
https://www.nationalcomplex.care/amplify-a-consumer-voices-bureau/speaker-profile-alayna-tillman/
Andre Davis
Addiction and recovery, mental health, homelessness
https://www.nationalcomplex.care/amplify-a-consumer-voices-bureau/speaker-profile-andre-davis/
Cisily Brown
Educating youth, teenage family planning, childhood trauma and abuse, equal opportunities for minorities and racism
https://www.nationalcomplex.care/amplify-a-consumer-voices-bureau/speaker-profile-cisily-brown/

Cynthia Gibbs Daniels
Addiction and recovery, substance abuse counseling, mental health counseling and support, healthcare and health advocacy
https://www.nationalcomplex.care/amplify-a-consumer-voices-bureau/speaker-profile-cynthia-gibbs-daniels/
Dennis Heaphy
Disability rights, intersectional policy development to advance health equity, local/state/national advocacy, community-based and broader participatory action research
https://www.nationalcomplex.care/amplify-a-consumer-voices-bureau/speaker-profile-dennis-heaphy/
Jamal Brown
Health, homelessness, addiction and recovery, mental health and well-being, spirituality and inspiration
https://www.nationalcomplex.care/amplify-a-consumer-voices-bureau/speaker-profile-jamal-brown/

Janice Tufte
Patient-centered research, social determinants of health, evidence and quality improvement, health equity and disparities
https://www.nationalcomplex.care/amplify-a-consumer-voices-bureau/speaker-profile-janice-tufte/
Joanne Guarino
Addiction and recovery, homelessness, sexual abuse
https://www.nationalcomplex.care/amplify-a-consumer-voices-bureau/speaker-profile-joanne-guarino/
Jonathon Harp
Addiction and recovery
https://www.nationalcomplex.care/amplify-a-consumer-voices-bureau/speaker-profile-jonathon-harp/

LaKeesha Dumas
Mental health, addiction, peer support, behavioral health, consumer engagement, community engagement, systems integration, trauma-informed care, advocacy, and clinical care teams
https://www.nationalcomplex.care/amplify-a-consumer-voices-bureau/speaker-profile-lakeesha-dumas/
Mia Matthews
Caring for kids with complex medical needs at home, patient-centered care, advocacy, coping with the loss of a child, improving the patient/provider relationship
https://www.nationalcomplex.care/amplify-a-consumer-voices-bureau/speaker-profile-mia-matthews/
Olivia Richard
Housing, disability rights, activism and advocacy, health equity, healthcare quality and improvement
https://www.nationalcomplex.care/amplify-a-consumer-voices-bureau/speaker-profile-olivia-richard/

Quiana Womack
Peer specialists and the peer workforce, patient and healthcare advocacy, navigating health and social service systems
https://www.nationalcomplex.care/amplify-a-consumer-voices-bureau/speaker-profile-quiana-womack/
Rebecca Esparza
Cancer advocacy, legislative advocacy, consumer advocacy, patient advocacy, access to care, caregivers, cancer survivorship, clinical trials, support groups
https://www.nationalcomplex.care/speaker-profile-rebecca-esparza/
Rodney Dawkins
Homelessness and housing, workforce development training, human rights, community health workers and the peer workforce, healthcare access, and health equity
https://www.nationalcomplex.care/amplify-a-consumer-voices-bureau/speaker-profile-rodney-dawkins/

Sara Reid
Health and mental health, gender identity and gender-affirming healthcare, diversity, trauma, cross-cultural communication, harm reduction, healthcare navigation, social justice
https://www.nationalcomplex.care/amplify-a-consumer-voices-bureau/speaker-profile-sara-reid/
Stephanie Burdick
Public health, health equity and evaluating policies around the social determinants of health, policies to support individuals with traumatic brain injury, community health workers
https://www.nationalcomplex.care/amplify-a-consumer-voices-bureau/speaker-profile-stephanie-burdick/