Name: Beth Droppert with Rebecca Crichton
Start: 2025-10-06T19:30:00-07:00
End: 2025-10-06T19:30:00-07:00
Location: The Mehdi Reading Room

Beth Droppert with Rebecca Crichton

What is a Health Advocate and Who Needs One?

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Date:: Monday, October 6
Time:: 7:30 pm PDT
Cost:: $10 – $35 Sliding Scale

Venue

: The Mehdi Reading Room
: 1119 8th Ave
Seattle, 98101 United States + Google Map

Event Format: In-Person

EVENT NOTES
Doors for this event will open at 6:30 PM. Town Hall events are approximately 75 minutes long.

From left to right: Headshots of Beth Droppert (with grey bob and white blouse) and Rebecca Crichton (with short grey hair and floral scarf)

Science

What is a Health Advocate, and who needs one?

Our medical system is broken. Navigating our way through it requires guidance and support. From grassroots movements to global policy shifts, health advocacy has shaped the way communities access care, fight inequities, and protect public well-being.

Join Beth Droppert, retired nurse and long-time supporter in the field of health advocacy, as she shares her work and its implications for our overall health in conversation with Rebecca Crichton, ED of Northwest Center for Creative Aging.

Beth M. Droppert R.N., B.S.N. has a long-lived passion for healthcare advocacy. In a career that spans 35 years, Beth specialized in Critical Care Nursing, working in management at the University of Washington Hospital.

She is a founding member and advisory board member of the National Association of Healthcare Advocacy Consultants (NAHAC). She has been involved in the process of credentialing patient advocates.

She co-founded Allied Health Advocates in 2008, the first independent health advocacy company in Washington State. She also co-founded the Washington State Health Advocacy Association (WASHAA), a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting health advocacy in Washington State, empowering patients and improving healthcare outcomes which transitioned to a National organization, HealthAdvocateX in 2012.

Rebecca Crichton, Executive Director of Northwest Center for Creative Aging (NWCCA), brings wisdom and purpose to her work with the aging community. She retired from a 21-year career at Boeing as a writer, curriculum designer, and leadership development coach. Her Encore Career uses her knowledge and experience to offer programs and resources related to Creative Aging in the Seattle area. NWCCA collaborates monthly with Town Hall Seattle. She facilitates Wisdom Cafes for the King County Library System and writes a regular column for 3rd Act Magazine.

Trained as a Hospice Volunteer, Rebecca continues to teach and facilitate Grief and Resilience support groups for several organizations. Rebecca has master’s degrees in child development and organizational development and is a Certified Coach.

Presented by Town Hall Seattle and Northwest Center for Creative Aging.