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Jennifer L. Wall, CPS
Network Director
Tobacco Free Rhode Island
American Lung Association
Jennifer Wall is the Director of Tobacco Free Rhode Island as well as the State Advocacy Lead for Access to Care issues for the American Lung Association in Rhode Island.
For the past 21 years, Jennifer has worked in the non-profit field. An experienced community organizer, advocate, fundraiser, and nonprofit director, she has honed her skills in several fields including prevention science, violence prevention, youth leadership development, tobacco control, policy, and public health.
Jennifer was employed by the East Providence Prevention Coalition (EPPC), a small nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting healthy lifestyles. She also co-founded and coordinated DICE, the EPPC's youth-led program that empowers young people to make change in their community through leadership development, peer education, and service to the community. For more than a decade, Jennifer has served on the Youth-to-Youth International's Eastern States Conference adult staff. A long-time tobacco prevention advocate, Jennifer spent the first 10 years of her career aiding in the passage of Rhode Island's smoke-free workplaces legislation.
Jennifer is a native Rhode Islander who grew up in East Providence and currently lives in Cumberland. She was a Public and Community Service major and is a graduate of Providence College. Jennifer is passionate about lung health, leadership development, cooking, and empowering individuals to be the change they wish to see in the world.
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Zoe Moreau
Community Engagement Specialist
Tobacco Free Rhode Island
As the daughter of a heavy smoker and the granddaughter of someone with very weak lungs genetically, it was never a hard decision to not start using tobacco. The only hard part was finding enough time in my fast-paced New England life to advocate and educate as much as I could.
My journey began my freshman year of high school and is still going strong while in college. I started off in my school’s Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD) chapter and quickly branched out to several other relating organizations, one being Tobacco Free Rhode Island (TFRI). After partnering with all of them, I was able to not only spread awareness about vaping throughout my town’s middle and high school, but on a state and federal level as well. Although I connected with many clubs, coalitions, and organizations, TFRI was where my love for prevention found a home.
Public health is my passion; taking down Big Tobacco fuels me; engaging the community enriches my life; and saving just one person through cessation makes it all worth it.
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Lance Boucher
Senior Division Director for State Public Policy, East Division
American Lung Association
Lance Boucher is the American Lung Association Senior Division Director for State Public Policy, East Division. In this capacity he is responsible for coordinating the state public policy activities and advocacy staff in the 25 state East Division.
Boucher has two decades of experience in politics and working at all levels of government - local, state and federal.
Prior to joining the American Lung Association, Boucher was an advisor to Maine Governor John Baldacci for both his terms in office. In this capacity he held a number of senior leadership positions focused on federal relations, grants management, and economic and community development. After the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in February of 2009, Lance oversaw Maine's implementation of federal stimulus funds, managing the application, expenditure and transparency reporting for more than $2 billion in federal recovery funding received by state government agencies.
Boucher also served on the Washington D.C. staff of then-Congressman Baldacci and in the Federal Affairs Office of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
Boucher is a native of Old Town, Maine, and a graduate of the University of Maine. He resides in Manchester, Maine.
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