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Grassroots Empowerment Project PO Box 8683 Madison, WI 53708-8683 Phone: 800-770-0588 Meet the Grassroots Empowerment Project Staff In the past year there have been some changes of faces here at GEP. Some of you know us and some of you don’t. In an effort to make sure you all have names and faces to go with the agency here is an interview that will help you get to know us a little better: Click here for information about our Board of Directors. Click here to fill out our comments form.
What is your name, position at GEP and where is your office located?
Molly Cisco	Executive Director, office in Lake Mills	800-770-0588 608-206-5094 (C) mollycisco@msn.com
Lora Ott	Financial Manager, office in Madison	800-770-0588x9 lott@charter.net
Sam Ahrens	Technical Assistance Coordinator	800-770-0588
Kellianne O'Brien	Technical Assistance Coordinator	800-770-0588 608-445-0274 (C)
Gregory Smith	Technical Assistance Coordinator, (assisting vocational pilot project in Green Bay, Madison and La Crosse) office in Madison	800-770-0588 608-206-3346 (C) newgoals@gmail.com
Do you serve on committees or policy-making groups?
Molly	I am a member of the Committee for Recovery and Consumer Involvement in CCS, Legislative and Policy Committee of the Governors Council on Mental Health, Recovery Task force and the Prior Authorization Advisory Committee.
Lora	I am on the Board of Community Shares of Wisconsin
Greg	I am a member of Dane County Recovery Assessment Workgroup and have recently joined the Committee for Recovery and Consumer Involvement in CCS
Name 3 things that you love about GEP:
Molly	There are actually 18 things love about working at GEP.. working with Greg, Lora, Carmen, Pam, the GEP Board of Directors and the 13 consumer run peer support organizations GEP funds. Everyone in this organization ROCKS and I am proud to be a member of the consumer movement in WI.
Lora	All of my co-workers, the team attitude of GEP staff and the people at the sites, the energy and excitement of Empowerment Days.
Greg	I love the way people join with others, and from there go to mutual discovery and organization. I love the open intelligence and peculiarities of many members I've met, especially when they refuse to give up. I love the honesty and creativity of GEP members, when we understand our community and personal identities; and when we turn inward to remember our fragile selves.
Share a little bit about yourself… what would you like folks to know about you?
Molly	The most interesting things about me are my dogs (Billy the bloodhound and Lydia the basset hound), the wonderful town I live in (Lake Mills) and the fact that in high school I received a letter in Circus (Sarasota Florida’s High School has a 3 ring circus and I was a clown).
Lora	I have two great kids who are all grown up (finally), have been working as an Accountant for 18 years, mostly in nonprofit agencies. I took a year-long break from working in accounting and drove a semi-truck all over the U.S. eight or nine years ago. Now I'm with GEP and also have a part-time business doing bookkeeping & financial consulting with other nonprofit agencies in the Madison area.
Greg	I don't have any kids yet. I actually don't know anything about any sport, nor the name of almost any recent actor or singer. I've almost never traveled anywhere although I took an airplane trip once and saw the ocean. I am inexperienced and ignorant of many basic facts of life. I like music that most people would never listen to and have written some myself. I think and talk sort of strange, and would prefer to live outside of cities. I don't understand liberals or conservatives. My next job will be artist/doctor/astrologer/business coach. I have accumulated thousands of little skills and tricks that amuse me and entertain others, every day.