Staff & Board of Directors
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 advocates for access to quality, affordable health care for all Georgians. Cindy brings more than 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. 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 where she co-authored several policy reports on health care policy. 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 Bachelor’s Degree from Emory University and a Master’s Degree from The George Washington University. Cindy was recently named one of Georgia’s “40 Under 40: Georgia’s Best and Brightest” by Georgia Trend magazine.
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.
Board of Directors
Harry J. Heiman, Chair
Director of Health Policy, The Satcher Health Leadership Institute
Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine
Patricia Nobbie, Vice Chair
Deputy Director, Georgia Council on Developmental Disabilities
Jeffery Graham, Secretary
Executive Director, Georgia Equality and the Equality Foundation of Georgia
Scott Mathews, Treasurer
Health Care Advocate
Robert Bush
Senior Staff Attorney, Elder Law Project, Georgia Legal Services Program
Sylvia Caley
Associate Clinical Professor, and Co-Director of the HeLP Legal Services Clinic
Georgia State University College of Law
Julie Edelson
Policy Advisor, CDC
Kathy Floyd
Legislative Director, AARP Georgia
Charlie Hayslett
CEO, Hayslett Group LLC
Miriam U. Rittmeyer
Executive Director
Community Health Mission
Jon W. Wollenzien, Jr.
Chief Executive Officer
Palmetto Health Council, Inc.
