Speakers

DAY ONE GENERAL SESSION

Creative Kuponya, founded in 2017 by Jamil and Sara Stamschror-Lott, exists to provide room, relief, and resource for individuals and organizations seeking accessible mental health care.

With a mission to center healing and mental health education for all, Creative Kuponya offers innovative services through three core avenues: Individual and family therapy, Transformative healing sessions, and Education and training programs.

As two licensed mental health practitioners, Jamil and Sara bring deep expertise and a shared commitment to reimagining mental health care—creating spaces of healing for all.

DAY TWO CLOSING PLENARY

The Theater of Public Policy is the country’s favorite (and coincidentally only) civics-inspired improv comedy company. They connect audiences with timely issues and ideas by interviewing policymakers, big thinkers and subject-matter experts, and then the cast illuminates the content through an audience-engaging improv performance.

FUTURE OF MEDICAID IN MINNESOTA

Dr. Nathan T. Chomilo is Medical Director for the State of Minnesota’s Medicaid & MinnesotaCare programs and practices as a General Pediatrician and an Internal Medicine Hospitalist with Park Nicollet Health Services/HealthPartners. He completed his combined residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota and was the Pediatric Chief Resident at the University of Minnesota Children’s Hospital. His advocacy work has included the impact early childhood intervention and healthcare access have on the long-term prospects of our children and how physicians and health systems can address health for all.

FUTURE OF MEDICAID IN MINNESOTA

Mark Brooks is the Administrative Managerof County Administration at Hennepin County Health and Human Services. He is responsible for project planning, strategy management, contract management, and health and human services policy.

FUTURE OF MEDICAID IN MINNESOTA

Keith Harvey is the CEO of Scenic Rivers Health Services. Scenic Rivers Health Services, a Community Health Center and Federally Qualified Health Center, has been dedicated to providing accessible healthcare since its founding as Cook Area Health Services, Inc. in 1979. Over the years, the organization has expanded to serve an 8,500-square-mile area in northern Minnesota, operating seven medical clinics and four dental clinics.

Its mission focuses on delivering high-quality medical, dental, and behavioral health services to rural communities, emphasizing a commitment to keeping local residents healthy.