Meet Your COPD Foundation Captains!

COPD Foundation Captains are volunteers with COPD, caregivers, friends and family members or healthcare providers who use their contacts and talents and partner with the COPD Foundation to serve as state and community leaders.

Captains promote the importance of becoming a part of the COPD community. They work to spread COPD awareness in their state and local areas, mentor fellow COPD community members, and participate in online and in-person grassroots advocacy and community building activities focused on health policy issues that are important to those who have COPD. If you are interested in joining our group of volunteers, click here.

If you'd like to speak with a COPD Foundation Captain directly, please email statecaptains@copdfoundation.org and we will connect you with the Captain in your area of interest.


Kathleen Henderson

Kathleen Henderson Profile Photo Boise, ID


I’m very happy to join the COPD Foundation Captains! I attended last year’s IMPACT and found a great group of people making a difference for COPD patients and their families. Since then, I have become active in spreading the news about COPD through social media, emails to my representatives, and local meetings. I’m also involved with the Alpha 1 Foundation, Better Breathers, and participate as a peer group mentor supporting Pulmonary Rehab.

Finding out you have COPD can feel like a death knell, but it is not! Finding out you CAN make a difference in your own life and those of others gives a new perspective and energy; and meeting with like-minded people reinforces the impact we can all make.

I look forward to this next great experience!

I have many favorite quotes, so I can’t give just one~

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there!”

And I’m a real Tolkien fan, so:

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

 



COPD Foundation State Captain Program Informational Video

The COPD Foundation is looking for new State Captains to join our community to be champions for promoting COPD awareness, improving quality of life for those with COPD, to participate in research opportunities, policy, and much more. Email statecaptains@copdfoundation.org for questions and to start the onboarding process today!