Mazzie Gogolak is a life-long summer/seasonal resident of Northeast Harbor. She is married to Charlie Gogolak. Mazzie is linked to MDNA through her great aunt, Elizabeth Madeira, who was a founding member of The Mount Desert Nursing Association in 1949. Her mother, Connie Madeira, was a board member and subsequently Board Chair and an Honorary Board Member in the late 70s and 80s. When asked to join the MDNA board, it seemed like the natural progression of family involvement in an important community asset and resource.

Mazzie has been President of the MDNA Board since 2016 and has guided the agency through its transition from a small home health agency of 1-2 nurses to a full service organization that accepts Medicare/commercial insurance.

She will complete her final term in May of 2024 after 10 years of service to the agency with the goal of leaving it with a solid operational and financial future. When asked what motivates her to make such significant commitments to local community resources, she said: “This island has given so much to me over my 73 years of coming here, I feel that what I have given back is just a ‘drop in the bucket’."

Kay Rand lives in Bar Harbor in the summer and in Carrabassett Valley in the winter. In both places, she lives with her husband, Cornell Knight, and their goldendoodle, Maggie. She and Cornell have two grown daughters and four granddaughters.

Kay successfully managed Angus King's first run for governor in 1994, and served as Governor King's Chief of Staff, 1995-2003. She also managed his campaign for US Senate in 2012 and joined Senator King in Washington DC from 2013-2019 as his Chief of Staff in the US Senate. Since retiring from the Senate, she serves on more than six boards and manages a consulting practice, Kay Rand LLC.

Kay joined the board in 2020, after she was instrumentally involved in working with Senator King to get MDNA their Medicare billing number when she was in Washington DC. Little did she know, at that time, that she would be moving to Bar Harbor upon leaving Senator King's Senate office, but the knowledge she gained about MDNA and its role on MDI prompted her to volunteer for the board.

Kay enjoys golfing in the summer and skiing in the winter, and she loves singing in the choir at the Bar Harbor Congregational Church.

Robert was born in Caribou and spent his teenage years in Bangor. He graduated from the University of Maine with a BS in Finance and an MBA. The U. of M. is where Bob met and married his wife Cindy. They lived in the Worcester, MA area for the next forty years, always returning to Maine for vacations. Upon retirement, Bob moved to Saco, Maine where he now lives part of the year. Bob joined the board in 2020 and uses his financial knowledge to help the association grow. In his spare time, he greatly enjoys golf and tennis.

Ann has been a long time summer visitor of Northeast Harbor. In 2021 she and her husband Frank Macri (and dog Goose) became full time Somesville residents after living in Boston for nearly 40 years.

Now retired, Ann’s professional career included software development and implementation for large financial institutions across the US, Europe, and Australia. In the last 10 years her focus has been in data science and data governance for State Street Bank & Trust in Boston. Prior board experience includes a community artist group located in Charlestown, MA.

Ann joined the MDNA board in 2022 and has been working on board governance initiatives to help the onboarding of new board members as well as the Finance and Public support committees. In her spare time she enjoys golf, tennis, paddle tennis, biking and hiking.

Deborah is a year round resident of Southwest Harbor. Her family were summer residents of SWH for many years while she was residing in MA. Deb was able to make ME her year round home in 2005. She has three grown children and 4 grandchildren who are all currently living in Maine.

Deb has been chairperson of a regional school committee and a Camp Beech Cliff board member as the board liaison to the extensive camp renovation project. She has also served on the boards of the Causeway Club and Acadia Family Center. Deb has been active in Real Estate since moving to Maine with owning and managing a number of rental properties.

She enjoys traveling, sailing, playing tennis and walking the trails of Acadia.

Mark Gauthier is a two-decade summer resident of MDI. A Californian the other half of the year, he spends winters in Palm Springs, along with his longtime partner Arthur Keller. On MDI, their home is on Barr Hill, just opposite St. Jude’s Church in Seal Harbor. Mark enjoyed a long career in publishing and advertising in New York, including posts at Foreign Affairs, Forbes, and Time magazines, and then leading his own boutique creative advertising firm, Gauthier & Gilden, Inc. On the west coast, Mark was a founding board member, and has served as Board President for 10 years, of The Foundation for the Palm Springs Unified School District, an education fund that supports 20,000 students in a challenged, six-city public school district. Mark holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from Columbia, and is a 3.5-level country club tennis player.

Dr. Gleason holds a Ph.D. in nursing from Boston College, a Master's in Adult/Geriatric Nursing, a Bachelor's in Cell and Molecular Biology, and a fellowship in Genetics from the National Institutes of Health (USA). He has focused on artificial Intelligence driving clinical competency through corporate strategic education. He has 25 years of clinical, academic, and management experience ensuring medically necessary and evidence-based care. Clinically he worked as a med/surgical telemetry nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital and as an occupational health nurse practitioner. His research has focused on implementing Artificial Intelligence to measure BSN students' clinical competency and readiness for practice. He has managed an undergraduate nursing department, supported the accreditation of a midwifery program, and designed just-in-time point-of-care applications for inpatient and community settings as well as a Board member for a visiting nurse association. He has practiced in the USA, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Ireland, China (Hong Kong SAR), and the Middle East.

Tricia Nalle is a summer resident on MDI. She and her husband, Hod, and their family have made MDI their family gathering spot for 38 years. Tricia lives in Atlanta, but spent many years in Philadelphia, New Jersey, and London. In Atlanta, Tricia has been a volunteer at the Piedmont Hospital, Atlanta Botanical Garden, and the High Museum of Art.

She has been in the fashion industry for over 35 years and owned a Private Label design and manufacturing company for many years.

Tricia joined the Board of the MDNA in 2020. Her interest in MDNA was inspired by the care MDNA gave to her mother-in-law and the desire to give back to the MDI year-round community.

Tricia enjoys golf, gardening, and hiking in Acadia.

Born and raised in the Netherlands, Charlotte attended high school, doctor’s assistant/ medical secretary school as well as nursing school there. In 1984 she moved to the US to pursue a career in Neonatal Intensive Care nursing and took a position in 1985-1988 at Boston Medical Center, then Boston City Hospital, as a NICU RN as well as doing part time pediatric home care, mainly with patients she had taken care of at Boston City Hospital. She then moved to Brigham and Women’s Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care unit and worked there till 2023 when she retired.

During her career she was part of several committees all working towards improved care. In 1988 she also went back to school for interior design part time at the New England School for Art and Design, which led to helping design the newest single family unit at the NICU at BWH in 2014.

She has sat on several local to Boston boards for nonprofit organizations and in one of which has she co chaired the Beacon Hill Civic Association’s Architectural Committee for many years, before stepping down in 2022.

She enjoys hiking Acadia and anywhere else, gardening, golf, watercolor painting, and curling during the winter months.

Wendy Wood is a year-round Somesviller resident who lives with her partner, Suzanne Hopkins and their two dogs. Retired from professional golf in 1991, she started her own building and renovation company in Virginia. Moving to Maine in 2006, she continued to dabble in real estate development while also taking the time to serve on the boards and committees of Acadia Fire Football Club, Mount Desert Community Foundation, Mount Desert Economic Development Committee, and the Granite Art Garden. Inspired by Mazzie Gogolak's tenacity and drive to make MDNA the very best provider of Home Health Care, she joined the board of MDNA in 2021. Wendy enjoys boating, cooking, gardening, hiking, biking and walking her pups on Acadia's beautiful carriage roads.