Kate Feuling Porter is a Senior Program Manager at Twin Cities Medical Society and oversees public health programming, including tobacco education and advocacy. Kate works to connect health care providers to grassroots advocacy opportunities in local communities to advocate for tobacco prevention policies. Kate also provides education and outreach to clinics, schools, and other organizations to engage current and future leaders in tobacco prevention efforts and policy change.

Gene brings with him more than 30 years of health care experience as a manager for the Health Care Division of 3M Corporation, now retired. Gene is Board Chair at Rainbow Research and the past Board Chair of Open Cities Health Clinic, a Federally Qualified Health Center in St. Paul. Gene is a Human Rights Commissioner for the city of Shoreview, Minnesota where he resides. He is a member of the MDH Maternal and Child Health Task Force and the Ramsey County Healthy Family Initiative Advisory Commission. Gene currently serves as Community Specialist at Association for Non Smokers MN. He has worked on tobacco and menthol issues for the past 10 years addressing African American health disparities and youth vaping crisis statewide. Gene was born and raised in Yonkers, New York, and earned his BA degree in Economics from the University of Pittsburgh.

Betsy Brock has more than 13 years of experience in advocating for policy, systems, and environmental change. She co-led the coalition of more than 50 organizations that successfully lobbied for a groundbreaking policy to restrict the sale of flavored tobacco in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Brock has her MPH from the University of Minnesota and her BA from Macalester College. Her research has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Tobacco Control and The American Journal of Public Health.