Megan McStravick is a self-driven team player, who joined the NOMC in 2009. Megan enjoys assisting musicians in obtaining health coverage, especially when she can do her part in eliminating the red tape that often prevents cash-based community members from subsidies which they are entitled to and are life-saving.

Megan’s patient-centered approach to care takes NOMC patients to the next level and provides hope. She takes the time to learn about each patient she serves and assesses their needs. Her advocacy style is built through personable experiences and exchanges which celebrate the art, history and performances which are so crucial to keeping New Orleans culture alive.

Erica Dudas has served as the Managing Director of the New Orleans Musicians’ Clinic since 2015 and considers her role, above all else, as a special teams coach for the organization’s talented members. She masterfully bolsters our partnerships and leads programming to ensure equity-based, patient-centered care and community wellness to our cherished population of musicians, performers and culture bearers.

A sociologist by training, after Hurricane Katrina (2005), Erica’s volunteership with local neighborhood groups led her to pivot from an academic career into nonprofit management. She’s run creative workforce development training programs, taught as an adjunct for Tulane Sociology and moonlighted in the jazz room as a Snug Harbor cocktail waitress/manager. When she came to the NOMC as a volunteer in 2011, she found an unanticipated path as an agent of change.  Erica is currently working full time while pursuing a degree in nonprofit management at the University of Indiana Bloomington’s O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

The musician who gives Erica the most goosebumps? Dr. Lonnie Smith – the NEA Jazz Master who commands life and the Hammond B3.

Favorite book? The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. She says the novel inspires her, above all else, to be devoted to her personal legend of leadership through service to others.

Email: EricaDudas@nomaf.org

If you ask Bethany Ewald Bultman about her role on our team, she’ll tell you, “I am the crust of bread that keeps the cultural peas on our fork.” Her proud pink hair is Bultman’s brazen advocacy for universal health care. As a cultural anthropologist, author, journalist, and documentary filmmaker, Bultman is known for her vibrant insights and historical commentary. She and her husband, Johann, are social justice and health equity activists who founded the New Orleans Musicians’ Clinic in 1998 and subsequently the New Orleans Musicians’ Assistance Foundation in 2005. Today, Bultman remains a vibrant Tour de Force in the New Orleans community including receiving an honorary doctorate from Loyola University, The Spirit of Charity Award from the Daughters of Charity (Seton Health), The Satchmo Award from French Quarter Fest, and served as the Queen of Krewe du Vieux in 2013.

Email: bb@nomaf.org

Email: kari@nomaf.org

Stacey Morigeau is the Special Projects Director for NOMAF. Stacey answered the siren call of New Orleans in August 2004 from Montana. The combination of music and theatre led her to find work at many festivals (French Quarter Fest, VooDoo Fest, Po Boy Fest, Bayou Boogaloo and more) while also working on stage productions across the city. She has volunteered at WWOZ for 12+ years, gutted houses with Arabi Wrecking Krewe following Katrina, and sells merchandise for numerous bands (Bonerama, Radiators, Paul Sanchez, New Orleans Nightcrawlers, Papa Gros Funk, and more) As all things are meant to be, she found her way to NOMAF 10 years ago and has been able to use her skills to help out the musicians and cultural bearers of New Orleans. To keep the beat alive, she is the Gal Friday of NOMAF, advising new patients, outreach coordinator, volunteers coordinator and much more. As someone without a lick of musical talent, Stacey is honored to be able to help the musicians stay healthy and happy. She spends her “spare” time walking friends’ dogs, going to hear live music, crocheting and yelling loudly during Saints games. In 2017 she was the Queen of Oak, the following year she was elevated to Demigoddess.

Email: programs@nomaf.org

Email: majam504@bellsouth.net

She became a mother in 2014, and since her daughter was 4 1/2, she has worked with her at the piano each morning, watching her talents slowly unfurl. They share a love for classical music and Bill Withers.

An avid cyclist, reader, and gardener. A lover of all cats. Her visual medium for the past several years involves all manner of fiber arts including elaborate Mardi Gras costumes and producing work with recycled textiles in an effort to bring attention to the massive waste in the fashion industry.

Email: lfreeman@nomaf.org

Nicole is a justice minded yogi, with a passion for live music, healthy food and nature! With a background in social work and integrative health, she wears several hats connecting people and building bridges within communities and organizations in order to serve and support the magical city New Orleans. She hosts and produces a weekly radio show on 102.3 WHIV (We Honor Independent Voices) called Living Well in the Big Easy, bringing all of these elements into interview and musical formats. Their programming is dedicated to human rights and social justice!

Nicole believes she likely lived a past life here in New Orleans, finally finding her way here in this lifetime by way of a long and winding road. Favorite New Orleans tradition: Sunrise ceremony with The Northside Skull and Bones Gang on Mardi Gras Day. Regional artists that get her groove going: Lost Bayou Ramblers, Herlin Riley, Nicholas Payton, Mike Dillon, Soul Rebels, Waterseed, Helen Gillet and James Singleton.

Email: nicole@nomaf.org