Every day the NHFA team teaches citizens about their health freedom rights and how to draft new laws that will protect those rights. Our work and our team have significantly expanded since 2020 and we wanted to give you a look inside at who we are and what we all do!
Attorney Diane Miller is one of the co-founders of NHFA and acts as the Law and Public Policy Advisor. She is the author of the book “Health Freedom: The Greatest Freedom of All.
Diane provides a wealth of expertise in the area of state, national, and international health freedom issues and gives input and guidance on key decisions and the direction of our work.
Staff Attorney Steven O’Connor oversees our Right to Refuse project. Steven assists state groups who are working on bills protecting medical autonomy. He tracks legislation for our Right to Refuse website and writes articles on important legal developments around the USA.
Steven also assists folks who contact us for help on a wide variety of health freedom issues.
Petra Brokken is the newest Staff Attorney at NHFA. Her work includes overseeing our Safe Harbor project, helping states that want to protect the right to use and practice complementary and alternative healthcare modalities.
Petra is a long-time health freedom activist with a special interest in protecting the public from EMF exposure.
Nate Gorman is the Legislative Policy Advisor for NHFA. Nate helps with both Right to Refuse and Safe Harbor efforts around the USA, sharing experiences and strategies that have proven effective in passing legislation.
Nate is a former lobbyist, and his work contributed to the successful passage of Colorado’s Safe Harbor exemption bill in 2013.
Julie Booras handles Public Outreach and Development. Julie brings her creative, marketing, and entrepreneurial skills to our organization to help ensure the financial stability of NHFA, and is the lead on our fundraising projects.
Julie is a loud voice in the movement to protect and defend our rights to bodily autonomy through education and legislative efforts both in her home state of Massachusetts and across the nation, as one of the co-founders of the Right to Refuse Legislative Project.
Judy Buroker is the Executive Office Administrator for NHFA. She has been with our organization since 2007. Judy keeps all of our websites up to date, manages our database and advocacy software, does bookkeeping and ledgering, assists in fundraising processes, and schedules and oversees staff and board meetings.
Judy’s organizational skills keep everything running smoothly!
Leo Cashman is a co-founder of NHFA. Leo oversees the accounting functions for NHFA, pays the bills, creates our financial statements, and does our tax filings and yearly IRS reporting.
Leo is also the Executive Director for DAMS, Dental Amalgam Mercury Solutions, an educational non-profit which works on dental-health issues, such as mercury fillings and their harmful effects.
Jerri Johnson is one of the co-founders and President of NHFA. She offers key oversight along with expertise in fundraising and public relations and the wide world of health freedom.
Jerri is a homeopath, former nurse, and devoted activist who helps the NHFA team with development.
Ordinary people are getting involved in the legislative process in numbers that we have never seen before. NHFA is here to help. We have 20 years of experience helping state groups pass laws that protect health freedom and our team is more committed than ever to continuing this work.
Rather than endless opposition to bad policy, let’s work proactively towards good strong policy solutions that will shape the future of health freedom that we wish for ourselves, our children, and our grandchildren.
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