Amanda Uehlein, MA
Executive Director
auehlein@gcruralhealth.org
970-725-3477
With a focus on equity and social justice, Amanda has enjoyed learning from a breadth of work experience as a direct care provider for adults with developmental disabilities, a teacher’s aide in a school for children on the Autism spectrum, a meditation instructor, an emergency/crisis clinician, and an outpatient therapist for adults in community mental health. Originally from upstate New York, Amanda received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Manhattanville College. She moved to Colorado to pursue graduate school and completed a Master of Arts in Somatic Counseling Psychology at Naropa University. Amanda has many years’ experience in group facilitation and is a trained Second Circle facilitator to build trusting relationships across racial and cultural differences and work toward real, meaningful change.
After relocating to Grand County, Amanda joined the Rural Health Network as a Care Coordinator in July 2018, became Program Manager in February 2019, was promoted to Associate Director in January 2021, and became the Executive Director in September 2024. She deeply enjoys providing reflective supervision to staff in their work with clients and community members and is a passionate advocate for the health and wellbeing of her community.
Amanda loves to go exploring with her husband and two cattle dogs. She believes in the power of art to drive change and support healing. Amanda’s teammates appreciate her support for others, her intentional use of language, and her innovative thinking.
Stevie Kitterman, CPFS
Lead Recovery Coordinator
skitterman@gcruralhealth.org
970-725-3477
Stevie joined the Grand County Rural Health Network team in May 2023 as the organization’s first Recovery Coordinator. In April 2024, she became the Lead Recovery Coordinator, helping guide and mentor the recovery coordination team and further support program development. Her role as a Certified Peer & Family Specialist (CPFS) is to help serve the recovery community in various capacities including certified peer coaching, advocacy, and helping to identify and reduce barriers to both acute and long-term recovery.
To become a CPFS, Stevie completed over 100 hours of certified Peer approved classroom training as well as over 500 supervised hours working as a Peer & Family Specialist and Recovery Coach. She passed the exam and received an official COPA recognized certification as of April 13 th 2024. Community members have been able to successfully develop and maintain a long-term recovery journey working with Stevie as a support and resource broker. She is so passionate about people and seeing the light of hope return to someone’s eyes.
Stevie has been devoted to and volunteering within the recovery community for over 15 years. During her time as a Salvation Army volunteer, she facilitated workshops, supported educational and entertainment outings for women in the facility, and helped support various spiritual activities with them. In addition, she has participated in outreach to offer recovery opportunities in correctional facilities and rehabilitation centers. Stevie continues to have a servant heart for this community and looks for opportunities to be of service whenever possible. Stevie has lived in many different places across the U.S. as well as in Mexico and Spain and is able to speak conversational Spanish, increasing our capacity to serve the Hispanic, Latinx, Spanish-speaking, and immigrant populations.
Stevie holds a Bachelor of Science in Integrative HealthCare with a minor in Wellness Coaching from Metro State University in Denver. During her time in college, she studied a wide variety of complementary and alternative therapeutic practices which further ignited her passion for people, nature, and the healing arts. She continued her studies for a semester in Mexico, living in a tent in the Baja where she also received a 200-hour yoga teacher certification and a yoga Nidra (Sanskrit word for sleep) meditation facilitator certificate. She often shows her compassion and nurturing side through sharing home cooked meals and homemade herbal medicine. Stevie is incredibly grateful to be in Grand County working with and building up the recovery community.
Ana Etler
Office Manager
aetler@gcruralhealth.org
970-725-3477
Ana brings a local face to our office as a fourth-generation resident of the area. She has grown up surrounded by the family and community that Grand County brings. Throughout her lifetime, Ana has worked for the community in customer service and tourism. She has been a committee member since 2018 before being elected to their board in 2023 for the Winter Park Horseman’s Association and High-Country Stampede Rodeo. She joined our team as a care coordinator in June 2022 before transitioning to Office Manager in February 2023, allowing her to help achieve her goals in supporting the local community.
She is excited to work for an organization that actively promotes development and support for the neighbors she grew up with. Ana feels that her local experience gives her a deeper connection to the work done by the Grand County Rural Health Network.
Ana’s coworkers note her resourcefulness and problem-solving skills, sometimes thinking outside the box and seemingly having answers in her “back pocket.” You can find Ana in the saddle alongside her husband and three dogs in her free time. They regularly take horseback rides throughout the national park to experience the Rockies’ beautiful scenery. She prioritizes de-stressing activities away from work to ensure wellness in her personal life and feels that her horses provide that for herself and her family.
Pamela Flor-Stout
Health Coverage Program Manager
pfstout@gcruralhealth.org
970-725-3477
Pam is tri-lingual with fluency in Spanish, English, and Portuguese. This, along with her deep care for our community, has made her an important asset to the Network since she joined in September 2021. An immigrant from Paraguay, she has been in the county since 2007, working in the lodging and tourism industry until 2021. She graduated from Colorado Mountain College with an Associate’s Degree in Resort Management in 2012.
Pam has lived through the joys and obstacles that being an immigrant might carry. She began traveling at the age of 17, living in New Zealand as an exchange student for one year. Half of her life has been spent in the southern hemisphere with the other half in the northern hemisphere.
She helps our organization to reduce stigma, increase health equity, provide care coordination, address the needs and issues related to the social determinants of health that surrounds Grand and Jackson County Hispanic residents through the Promotora program, which she held since February of 2022. She also serves as a Certified Health Coverage Guide to provide outreach, education, and assistance to individuals and families in the community who are interested in learning more about their health coverage options. In May of 2024, Pamela became the first Health Coverage Program Manager. In this role, she will continue to serve as a Certified Health Coverage Guide, while engaging in program management responsibilities such as grant writing, reporting, program marketing and evaluation, as well as providing direct and indirect supervision and leadership to the Health Coverage Guides and Promotoras.
Pam’s coworkers recognize her eagerness to participate in discussion, offer unique insights, take initiative in projects, and, since Spanish is her first language, find her invaluable as an interpreter and health liaison. She loves being outdoors, especially snowboarding or skiing with her family, cooking dinners with different flavors, and challenging her daughter to enjoy the array of outdoor activities we are so blessed to have in the Rocky Mountains.
Christine Smith
Strategic Development Director
cwsmith@gcruralhealth.org
970-725-3477
Christine joined the Network in February 2015 as a Program Coordinator, being drawn to healthcare and client advocacy after experiencing support from the Network through her own health crisis 2 years prior. She became Operations Manager in June 2017 and was promoted to her current position in February 2021. Christine received her Bachelor of Business Administration from The University of Michigan with an emphasis in marketing. She brings a variety of both volunteer and professional experience in client services, promotions, event and project management, most recently as Group Services Manager at Winter Park Resort.
In her current role, Christine works on special projects that align with our strategic plan to help grow and strengthen the health and wellbeing of our local community. She also oversees donor relations, marketing and fundraising, as well as the Network’s ACHES & PAINS healthcare voucher program. Her coworkers say they value her ability to express herself eloquently on behalf of the Network and its values.
In her free time, Christine enjoys skiing fresh powder in the winter and trying to master stand-up paddle boarding on rivers in the summer. She and her husband are enjoying many new travel adventures together as recent empty nesters.
Lauren Stokes, MA, LPC, C-SPT
Direct Services Program Director
lstokes@gcruralhealth.org
970-725-3477
Lauren joined the Rural Health Network team in February 2023 as the Direct Services Program Director, seeing it as a meaningful opportunity to re-align her career with her passion for leadership, client and community services, healthcare, mental health, equity, and systemic change at the local and regional level.
Lauren grew up in the Denver area and learned to ski at Silver Creek and Winter Park Resort, starting her journey toward calling Grand County home. Frequently serving as a grounded and compassionate listener with friends and family, Lauren obtained a Bachelor of Science in psychology, sociology, and cultural geography at the University of Denver while living part-time in Grand County to continue her competitive snowboard career.
Lauren went back to school in 2010 to complete a master’s degree in counseling psychology through the University of Colorado Denver, a program emphasizing equity and multicultural competency across the curricula. During graduate school, Lauren lived in the county full-time, working at Winter Park Resort as the Snowboard Program Manager. Lauren went on to work as a Licensed Professional providing individual, couple, and play therapy as well as group facilitation.
In 2017 she scaled back her practice and re-joined the team at the Winter Park Resort’s Competition Center as the Business Manager, leading significant transformations in guest services, program administration, finance, sponsorship, fundraising, merchandising, branding, digital marketing, and communications.
Over the years she participated in a variety of local committees and work groups, such as the Grand Beginnings Early Childhood Council, Communities that Care, and has ongoing involvement in the Behavioral Health Strategic Planning Committee and the Grand Foundation’s H.O.P.E. (Healing Opportunities through Prevention Efforts) Fund Advisory Committee.
Outside of work, Lauren enjoys spending her time with her husband and her stepson during his visits home from college. Much of her free time is spent tending their four-legged family members: three horses and a dog.
Jennifer Tibbetts
Community Engagement Specialist
jtibbetts@gcruralhealth.org
970-725-3477
Jennifer grew up in Arvada, CO and attended college in Lancaster, England and at the University of Colorado-Boulder where she obtained her BA in 1991. Prior to moving to Grand County, Jennifer owned a manufacturers’ representative sales agency in the power utility industry for 17 years in Denver, incorporating her many years of sales and marketing experience in various tech industries. She and her husband and two sons moved full-time to Grand County in 2018, and in 2019 she started coordinating client services at the Mountain Family Center, a non-profit resource organization based in Grand County.
She joined the Network in 2022 as Community Engagement Specialist and is excited to engage with even more of her neighbors in Grand County. In this role Jennifer works to connect, educate, motivate and mobilize the local community to address specific, community-identified issues. She calls upon her combined communications experience in both the corporate world and the non-profit sector in her work to foster and build consensus amongst diverse groups.
Outside of work, Jennifer is busy with two teenagers and loves spending time with her family, attempting yoga, and hiking or cross-country skiing depending on the season.
Katie Moon
Recovery Coordinator
kmoon@gcruralhealth.org
970-725-3477
Katie started with Grand County Rural Health Network in June 2024. She has an Associate of Arts degree in Psychology from Colorado Mountain College and is currently working towards completion of Bachelor of Arts degree in Human Services.
Prior to her work at Grand County Rural Health Network, Katie worked for XCEL Energy for 19 years. This included a Control System Specialist apprenticeship in IBEW Local 111, through Supervisory roles and into engineering.
Katie has volunteered with The Chance Phelps Foundation for veterans as well as Freedom Hooves equine therapy when they were in operation over the years.
She hopes her new role as a Recovery Coordinator will give her the opportunity to support others and make a difference in the lives of individuals, families, and her community.
Estefania Baray
Promotora & Health Coverage Specialist
ebaray@gcruralhealth.org
970-725-3477
Estefania joined the Grand County Rural Health Network in May 2024 as a Promotora de Salud. In February 2025, she was promoted to Promotora & Health Coverage Specialist, a reflection of her extensive experience and knowledge in health coverage. Estefania is proficient in both English and Spanish, with a rich background spanning over a decade in community work and customer service roles serving rural communities. She built a solid foundation as a Health Navigator at the Family Intercultural Resource Center and later as a Medicaid Enrollment Specialist at the Summit Community Care Clinic. Through this work Estefania increased her skills in navigating complex healthcare systems and advocating for underserved populations. Even though she was based in Summit County, all the help and resources throughout the work also served surrounding counties including Grand, Lake, Park, and Eagle clients.
Having recently relocated to Grand County, she is very excited to join the Grand Rural Health Network, driven by a passion to address the different needs of her new community. Through her experiences in the health sector, Estefania has witnessed firsthand the difficult barriers that individuals and families encounter when accessing healthcare
Amy Warner, MPH
Seasonal Health Coverage Guide
awarner@gcruralhealth.org
970-725-3477
Amy came out of retirement to be a Health Coverage Guide during the Colorado Open Enrollment period. She said, “retirement has its perks, but work connects me to the community and gives me an opportunity to contribute.”
In her career at The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, she worked to describe occupational exposures and injuries to Colorado workers, investigate cases of reportable disease, and prevent the spread of diseases. Amy is eager to join the Grand County Rural Health Network, and to learn more about the people and organizations that are striving to meet the needs of Grand and Jackson counties.
The Warner family has owned property and spent their summers in the Grand Lake area for the past three generations. Amy and her husband are the first to make it their permanent home. They are currently working with their extended family to restore their land from the impacts of the East Troublesome Fire. To that end, they’ve planted grass and more than 500 trees and willows. They also spent weeks on thistle mitigation, a project that will surely continue.
Amy has a B.A. from The Colorado College in history and political science and a Masters in Public Health from Emory University. She served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Mauritania West Africa and a WHO/CDC STOP Project volunteer in Cameroon. She was a 2000 fellow of the Regional Institute for Health and Environmental Leadership. She also served as Board Chair for Liver Health Connection and worked closely with the Executive Director on its merger with Vivent Health.
Jeanette Causey
Care Coordination Manager
jcausey@gcruralhealth.org
970-725-3477
Jeanette joined the Network in November 2024 as the Care Coordination Manager. She brings almost 10 years of experience in social work and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Public Administration from Florida International University in Miami, FL. Jeanette is also fully bilingual in English and Spanish. She has served in different capacities, including Special Projects Manager for a harm-reduction women’s shelter in Seattle, Washington, as a Bilingual Family Care Coordinator for a non-profit in Brighton, CO, as a Director of Social Services at an assisted living facility in Durango, CO and as a Care Team Supervisor for The Health Partnership in Steamboat Springs, CO. She has seen firsthand all the struggles and barriers that families and individuals encounter when trying to access healthcare services and connecting with community resources.
Outside of work, Jeanette has had the opportunity to live overseas as a Diplomat in both Peru (for three years) and Costa Rica for (six years). This gave her the opportunity to volunteer her services in foreign countries and personally learn about the struggles individuals face in those countries when trying to access basic needs. In her free time, Jeanette loves spending time with her husband, 5 daughters and 2 grandchildren. She also enjoys boating, hiking, camping, snowmobiling, snowshoeing and travelling back to Miami to visit with family and friends.
Andy Lugo, MSW
Health Navigator
alugo@gcruralhealth.org
970-725-3477
Andy joined the Network in May 2024 as a Care Coordinator, and was promoted to the Health Navigator position in February 2025. He brings almost 20 years of comprehensive experience in social work and holds a Master of Social Work and a Bachelor of Arts in Science Education. He is also fully bilingual in English and Spanish. He has served in various capacities, including as a social worker at the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center in Philadelphia where he provided direct clinical social work services focused predominantly on substance use disorder counseling, case management, and outreach for homeless veterans. His professional journey also includes roles as counselor at Delaware Valley University and Barry University where he provided mental health counseling, crisis intervention, and psychoeducational
workshops to students. Additionally, he has experience in education, having taught science at the middle school level in Miami, Florida.
Andy moved to Grand County in 2020 looking for a quieter and slower pace of life that’s closer to nature. What he loves the most about Grand County is that that he can look up at the night sky and clearly see the stars. In addition to looking at the night sky, he enjoys riding his mountain bike and playing video games.
Sudi Newcomer, MLS
Care Coordinator
snewcomer@gcruralhealth.org
970-725-3477
Sudi joined the Rural Health Network team in June of 2022 as a Care Coordinator, wanting to give back the community that she has called home for over 30 years. Sudi left the Rural Health Network in April 2024, but her passion for connection and community led her back to GCRHN in November of the same year. Her genuine care for her clients and their health, and her dedication to creating equitable health, fires her passion for her work as Care Coordinator.
Sudi grew up in North Carolina and received her BA at University of Georgia. She moved to Grand County for ONE ski season in 1990 and ended up never leaving. Sudi received her master’s degree in legal studies in 2015. She is familiar with the non-profit world as she served on the first CASA Board in Grand County and worked for The Grand County Advocates as Outreach Coordinator from 2020-2022 prior to joining GCRHN team.
Outside of work Sudi is an avid skier, working as a part-time ski guide for Winter Park Resort for many years. She enjoys downhill and cross-country skiing in the winter and biking, hiking and attending concerts in the summer. Sudi raised her two daughters in Grand County and enjoys spending time with them when they come home. She also enjoys hanging out with her husband and her two dogs.