Leadership Team
New Resource for Fair Compensation Practices for People with Lived Experience
People with Lived Experience (PWLE) bring insights that make policies, programs, and services stronger, more relevant, and more effective. But their expertise is often undervalued, or even excluded, because of outdated or inflexible compensation practices. CACP has partnered with our PWLE Advisory Council to bring you our new Compensating People with Lived Experience guide where […]
Kat Ferguson-Mahan
Kat Ferguson-Mahan serves as Senior Advisor, Medicaid and Medicare at the Center to Advance Consumer Partnership (CACP), where she brings nearly two decades of experience advancing health transformation, community partnership, and system-level change. Her work focuses on helping public agencies and partners design and implement policy and programs shaped by the voices of people with lived experience. Kat […]
Abi Santmyer
Abi Santmyer serves as Senior Advisor, Communications and Brand for the Center to Advance Consumer Partnership (CACP), where she leads strategic communications, brand narrative, and messaging across the organization’s work with Medicaid leaders, health plans, regulators, and partners. Her work advances CACP’s mission to center lived experience and support meaningful systems change through clear, thoughtful, and human-centered […]
Melinda Karp
Melinda has close to thirty years of experience as a health care industry leader. She has developed innovative approaches to transform health care experience and outcomes through authentic consumer engagement and creating cultures of partnership with those with lived experience across numerous organizations, including Commonwealth Care Alliance, BCBSMA, Massachusetts Health Quality Partners, and Harvard Pilgrim […]
Janet Peluso
Janet is the Principal of OFin where she provides advisory and contracted services in the areas of financial management, contracting, and business planning. She has over 25 years of experience in a variety of settings, including non-profits, medical groups, and managed care/insurance companies. Janet has a Master’s in Business Administration from The Wharton School of […]
