Helen Head

Helen Head has focused on affordable housing issues for many years – in legal aid, shared housing, and the legislature. From 2003-2019, Helen represented Chittenden 7-3 in the Vermont House and became chair of the committee on General, Housing and Military Affairs in 2007. She now serves as co-coordinator of Small Potatoes, an interfaith food initiative, and is a volunteer for both hospice and a prisoner/community reintegration program. Helen is a board member for Emerge Vermont and is co-presiding clerk of Burlington Friends Meeting (Quakers). She and her husband, Tom Mercurio, have two grown children and live in South Burlington.