Wendy Tardif

Wendy is the executive director of the Dempsey Center. Wendy received her bachelor of science degree in exercise science from the University of Maine, Orono in 1984. She has worked in the field of community health education for over twenty-five years, co-founding Healthy Androscoggin and playing an instrumental role in the creation of the CMMC Health and Wellness Center. She is a certified tobacco treatment specialist, and has assisted hundreds of former tobacco uses in Central Maine to quit in order to live longer, healthier lives. Wendy is a commissioner for the American Lung Association of Maine and a faculty member of the Center for Tobacco Independence. Wendy has a passion for assisting community members in their quest for a healthier life.

From the show: “I try to get out and meet as many of the families and individuals that are coming through our doors and we just learn so much from them about living life to its fullest extent for whatever time we have left,” says Tardif.