Advocate and educator, Kitty Martz is the executive director of Voices of Problem Gambling Recovery in Portland, Oregon. She is president of the NCPG state affiliate Oregon Council on Problem Gambling and, as a person with lived experience in gambling harm, a member of the National Council on Problem Gambling Recovery committee. She oversees Oregon’s HOPE Peer Program, trains other peers and establishes best practices/policies to share with other developing gambling peer programs. Her passion is participating in the evolution of legislative policies as they relate to mitigating gambling harm.