Staff
Cindy Zeldin, Executive Director
czeldin@healthyfuturega.org
Cindy Zeldin is the Executive Director of Georgians for a Healthy Future, a health policy and advocacy organization that aims to expand access to affordable and high quality health care services through policy analysis, legislative advocacy, and citizen engagement. Cindy brings a decade of public policy experience to this role, having worked at both the state and national levels. Previously, she served as Federal Affairs Coordinator for the Economic Opportunity Program at Demos, where she managed Congressional outreach and education. While at Demos, she also conducted research on medical debt and coauthored the policy report “Borrowing to Stay Healthy.” Prior to her work at Demos, she was the Senior Program Associate in the Health Policy Program at the New America Foundation, a national think tank. She began her career here in Georgia in the Health Care Division of the Department of Audits, where she was part of a team that conducted management reviews of state health care programs. She holds a B.A. from Emory University, an M.A. from The George Washington University, and is currently working toward a PhD in Health Services Research and Health Policy at Emory University, for which she has completed coursework.
Amanda Ptashkin, Outreach & Advocacy Director
aptashkin@healthyfuturega.org
Amanda Ptashkin joins Georgians for a Health Future as the new Outreach and Advocacy Director. She spent the last three years in Pennsylvania working as the State Health Alliances and Grassroots Director for Pennsylvania and Delaware with the American Heart Association. Amanda is a licensed attorney with a passion for health policy and advocacy. Her biggest successes and highest moments came when legislators saw beyond political divisions and came together to advance basic human rights. While Amanda is new to the Atlanta area, she is eager to hit the ground running and help establish GHF as the premiere healthcare reform organization in the state. Before attending Widener University School of Law in Delaware, Amanda was an undergraduate at New York University and majored in Politics and minored in Health Policy. She believes her strong educational background in law, politics and health policy has equipped her with a keen analytical mind that thrives on advocacy and the promotion of access and equity. She is honored to join Georgians for a Healthy Future and looks forward to the hard work ahead.
