Elsie Flemings is the Executive Director of Healthy Acadia, a community health organization serving primarily Washington and Hancock counties in Downeast Maine, with offices in Ellsworth, Machias and Calais. She is responsible for ensuring that the organization is responsive to local community health needs and priorities while assuring effective program management, communication and coordination with partners, community mobilization, financial management, ambassadorship, and resource development. Healthy Acadia works on a broad range of collaborative community health initiatives, with six areas of focus: Strong Beginnings; Healthy Food for All; Active and Healthy Environments; Healthy Aging; Substance Prevention and Recovery; and Health Promotion & Management. Elsie lives in Bar Harbor with her husband, Richard, and their two daughters, Fiona and Sylvia. Their older daughter (Elsie’s step-daughter, Rachel) lives in Florida with her daughter, Haven. As a family, they love to “walk the walk” (or “run the run”) of healthy living: running, hiking, biking, swimming, gardening, skiing, sledding, and adventuring together!