Wendy Grew up in Hampton Beach, NH, and attended Winnacunnet High School and Northeastern University. She is also a 2018 graduate of the UNH IOD Leadership Series. Wendy now resides in and is running for her third term as State Representative.

In 2021, she was awarded Outstanding Legislator of the Year by the New Hampshire Council on Developmental Disabilities. Wendy is a member of the Disability Rights Center Supported Decision Making Taskforce and Cohost of the Portsmouth Public Media show Living and Learning with Disabilities, which has wrapped up its 17th year.

In addition to ABLE NH’s Board of Directors, Wendy is a member of the Lakes Region Mental Health Board of Directors and Development Committee. She is also a Civics and Policy facilitator for The National Parent Leader Institute Program at Manchester Community College and a volunteer for the Young Athletes program sponsored by the Laconia Knights of Columbus and NH Special Olympics.

Wendy and her husband, Glenn, are owners of Avalon Promotions, a Service-Disabled Veteran owned Small Business located in Rollinsford and Laconia. Her parents started the company in Portsmouth in 1981; she took ownership in 2001. Wendy is the mother of two. Her oldest, a daughter, died in 2018 after a long battle with complications from childhood cancer. Her son and daughter-in-law have two children, the loves of Wendy’s life.