Stephen Adair Vernon, MA, MFT along with an extensive career in non-profit public Mental Health services has been in private practice for nearly 40 years. Stephen is a co-founder of Therapists for Single Payer, a board member of Healthy California Now—the statewide coalition of organizations for Single Payer and is a member of PNHP’s Bay Area and State steering committees.
He presents frequently to grassroots, political and multiple health care disciplines about the basic issues of Single Payer and the specific needs for mental health and substance abuse services in the current and any future healthcare system.
Nancy Niparko, MD is a pediatric neurologist who trained at MSU CHM, U of Michigan Pediatrics and CHLA/USC Neurology. She spent 27 years in private practice, and 9 years in hospital clinics. She serves as a Los Angeles PNHP co-chair, and is dedicated to her long-term goal of creating a healthcare system that directs skills and resources to excellent healthcare for all, rather than our current for-profit system.
I am a retired risk management executive from an international technology company. Since 2018, I’ve advocated for single payer, universal health care. I joined PNHP in 2022, and have worked to build strong alliances, coalitions, and activism for single payer. I believe healthcare is a human right and we need a system where everybody is in, and nobody is out.
