T. Scott Brandon has been involved in various roles with Volunteers in Medicine of the Olympics / Olympic Peninsula Community Clinic since 2007, first as a donor, volunteer and advisor, then as an employee. He briefly stepped away in 2018 to start a charitable foundation in support of Volunteer Hospice of Clallam County. During that time, he remained involved with OPCC as a board member and the clinic’s treasurer. Scott returned to the clinic as Executive Director in early 2020 (promoted to CEO in 2023). Upon his return, he focused on expanding the REdisCOVERY program to better reach and support under-served community members, including the implementation of a robust street and shelter medicine program, which weaves medical and behavioral health care with access to programs that address social determinants of health. In addition to his work at OPCC, he is a member of the Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion/Let Everyone Advance with Dignity (LEAD) Washington state technical assistance team and held a leadership role in designing and creating the LEAD certification program. He is currently a nominee for the WHAA Board of Trustees, and the NAFC Board of Directors.

Carrie Perkins, Ph.D. is a Medical Anthropologist and Qualitative Research Scientist with the Washington State Department of Health, where she leads qualitative evaluation for the Center for Access to Whole Person Care. She was previously a Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Soka University, and an ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Irvine. Her work centers on identity, belonging, and access to care, with fieldwork experience among refugee and immigrant communities in the Middle East, Southeast Asia and the United States.

Elizabeth is a senior strategy and operations leader working inside a traditional industry — the kind of business with field crews, paper invoices, and a workforce that's rightfully skeptical of anything that sounds like a TED talk. She has spent the last decade building strategy and execution systems inside companies that sell through sales teams, move physical goods, and rely on people who are measured by results, not buzzwords. Her experience spans cross-functional planning, customer operations, and internal readiness for AI projects that have to work in the real world. PMP-certified and a regular speaker at PMI chapter events, Elizabeth helps executive teams translate generative AI and automation into practical guardrails, useful workflows, and measurable outcomes — while keeping the day-to-day work of operations front and center.