Anna Potere Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, CA, US

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Lead the agency’s work across teams and with external partners to develop innovative financing mechanisms for sustaining and expanding maternal and child well-being programs, including via Medi-Cal and other state and.
• Analyze currently available programming for pregnant and parenting people and their families in order to maximize efficacy and impact and promote health equity
• Manage complex projects involving multiple internal and external stakeholders and including budgeting, procurement, and contracting
• Work with multiple partners to guide the implementation of federal child welfare reform legislation that will create a new revenue stream and new partnerships for early childhood programming
• Partner with healthcare, child welfare, schools, early care and education, and other child-serving systems to strengthen referral pathways to maternal and child health programming
• Participate in several national committees dedicated to improving maternal and child health, including the National Home Visiting Summit Steering Committee and the Institute for Medicaid Innovation’s Child and.

Chicago, IL

• Developed state-level recommendations for prenatal-3 systems to work together, specifically developmental screenings and ensuring children and families receive adequate healthcare and social services
• Launched a pilot program to offer the families of all babies born in Illinois a home visit for the purposes of connecting them with all services to meet their needs
• Drafted a Medicaid State Plan Amendment as part of a multi-pronged strategy to create a new funding stream for maternal and child health programs through Medicaid in Illinois
• Contributed to Illinois’ 2 applications for an 1115 federal Medicaid waiver, including behavioral health and home visiting programs for babies born with withdrawal symptoms from opioid addiction
• Provide strategic guidance to pilot programs that offer home visiting services to homeless families, pregnant and parenting teens in care of the state, and mothers identified at risk based on their ACEs scores
• Developed a program to offer home visiting to incarcerated teen fathers and the mothers of their babies in order to facilitate a healthy attachment relationship between babies and their parents while in care and in.

Chicago, IL

• Developed a multi-pronged strategy to create a new funding stream for maternal and child home visiting programs through Medicaid, which includes advocating with the medical field and writing a Medicaid State Plan.
• Analyze innovative financing mechanisms for their potential application to early childhood education programs, including Social Impact Bonds/Pay for Success strategies and Opportunity Compacts
• Developed policy and practice recommendations for increasing collaboration between child-serving systems, including health and child welfare, and am working to implement them
• Contributed to multiple state and federal grant applications to secure public and private funding for early childhood services
• Remain closely connected to program providers in order to identify challenges they are experiencing and develop policy solutions to resolve those challenges
• Analyze state and federal budgets and legislation to assess their potential impact on the programs serving at-risk families, and communicate the results of those analyses to affected programs, legislators, and funders

Chicago, Illinois

• Developed a toolkit for advocacy organizations to examine their organizational capacity and to help them to identify strategic priorities
• Analyzed grant proposals from state advocacy organizations in order to provide feedback to them on how to strengthen their applications, and wrote grant proposals and reports for a national funder
• Created the Ounce of Prevention’s National Policy Digest, a bi-weekly newsletter with over 300 subscribers
• Applied knowledge of early childhood public policy to research and analyze public policies, programs, and legislation at the national, state, and local level for their impact for at-risk children and their families
• Coordinated consultation to support state advocacy leaders in a 15-state network, including developing and maintaining relationships with them and staying up to date on state advocacy priorities, challenges, and needs
• Developed a learning community for early childhood advocates from across the country to share information, challenges, and advocacy and communications strategies and planned conferences and activities for them

London, United Kingdom

• Applied experience gained in U.S. field collection efforts to develop field collection guidance and methodology to survey the health needs of elderly populations in Pakistan
• Relied on interpersonal skills to ensure effective communication between the field collection effort in Pakistan and leadership in London
• Produced report on Pakistan field collection results using knowledge of elderly populations and research and analysis skills
• Utilized knowledge of emergency planning, children, and HIV/AIDS to produce a literature review on skipped-generation households in sub-Saharan Africa for HelpAge, UNICEF and ODI

New Delhi, India

• Helped empower local women by educating them on sexual health and culturally appropriate ways to affirm their right to be safe and healthy
• Secured increased funding from new international sources for the Naz Foundation’s HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment projects by writing, editing, and submitting grant proposals
• Successfully recruited new donors and secured additional funding for a capital campaign
• Applied information technology and communications skills to design a new website for the Foundation, and to reorganize its electronic fundraising tracking/records system
• Expanded knowledge of the impact of HIV/AIDS on children by caring for HIV-positive orphans

• Organized and conducted post-disaster field data collection efforts, and managed the resulting production of several high-level Department of Homeland Security deliverables
• Honed research, analysis and writing skills by managing several research topics for an online DHS peer learning portal and introducing new topics to meet the needs of the emergency management field, e.g. Emergency.
• Used communications skills to work in FEMA’s Office of Congressional Affairs, acting as a liaison between state-level politicians making emergency requests and FEMA
• Led initiatives to improve company processes and managed new consultants and interns

Leadership La Fellowship, Organizational Leadership

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Msc, Political Economy Of Late Development, Development, Economics, High Honors

Activities and Societies: Elected program representative by my peers for our MSc programJoint Degree: Economic History and International.

Bs Foreign Service, Economic Development, Culture And Politics, Anthropology, Diplomacy, Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Graduated cum laude; participated in the Blood Drive, STAND: Darfur, Georgetown Program Board, Georgetown.