Elizabeth Sinclair (Lizz) is a Program Officer for the Council, coordinating two programs for MHC. Literature & Medicine: Humanities at the Heart of Health Care® is a reading and discussion program for health care professionals developed by MHC in 1997 that, as of 2008, has reached 28 Maine hospitals and health care organizations and has been offered at hospitals in 19 other states. Lizz edits the program’s e-zine, Synapse, helps to organize national trainings and conferences, and has worked with Dr. Bruce Clary of the Muskie School of Public Service and Victoria Bonebakker on designing an evaluation of the program based on the Kellogg Logic Model. She also coordinates Let’s Talk About It, a free reading and discussion program based in libraries across the state that brings community members together for thoughtful (and fun) facilitated discussion of a variety of works of literature centered around a theme. Lizz grew up in Maine and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Mount Holyoke College and a graduate of the Maine College of Art. After several years of teaching history at a high school and working in technical theatre, she served as Director of MECA’s Art in Service Program, mentoring and teaching art students as they worked in community organizations. She is on the Board of Directors for SPIRAL Arts, Inc., a community arts organization, and is one of the artists working on the Mosaic of Hope mural for the new community center in the Parkside neighborhood of Portland. When not at MHC, she works in her studio in Portland.