Staff
Alta Lash
Executive Director
Phone: 860-524-0502 Ext. 11
E-Mail:
alta.lash@ucanct.org
Alta is the founder and Executive Director of United Connecticut Action for Neighborhoods (UCAN). She has served as Director of UCAN for over twenty-five years. She designed organizational models for community involvement which have resulted in the creation of several state-wide coalitions and local community organizations. Her organizing activities currently are concentrated on health care issues, but over the years she has addressed a wide variety of policy issues. Additionally, Alta teaches grassroots organizing at the University of Connecticut School of Social Work and a community internship seminar at Trinity College.
Jack Mimnaugh
Associate Director
Phone: 860-524-0502 Ext. 10
E-Mail: jack.mimnaugh@ucanct.org
Jack has been the Associate Director of United Connecticut Action for Neighborhoods since 1978. Jack was the founding director of Hartford Areas Rally Together and has developed several other community organizing groups. He has provided training for community organizing staff and neighborhood leaders at the local, state, and national level.
