Barrie Tabin Berger Email & Phone Number

Leading NCSL's Technology, Communications and Financial Services advocacy portfolio. Helping federal and state policymakers understand how issues related to Artificial Intelligence, Privacy, Cybersecurity, Broadband, Fintech and more can change the landscape for government, businesses and the public.

Washington, Dc

• Lead cross-team collaborations to develop and execute winning legislative and campaign strategies to advance organization’s state and local level advocacy priorities. Responsible for successful nationwide initiatives to: develop and maintain housing, transportation, and broadband infrastructure to facilitate aging in place and economic opportunity; enhance retirement and income security; preserve funding for home and community-based care, caregiver assistance, and public pensions; and support comprehensive, fiscally sustainable balanced budgets. • Develop advocacy materials, including model legislation, issue briefs, testimony, and letters to policymakers. Subject matter expert on issues relating to taxes, budgets, retirement and income security, housing, transportation, high-speed internet, aging, and consumer rights.• Create resources, including research surveys, education toolkits, and publications to empower AARP’s 50 state offices, volunteers, and coalition partners to influence the legislative decision-making process, achieve advocacy objectives, and educate members and the public. • Conduct trainings and presentations for AARP advocates, policymakers, and external stakeholders to educate on AARP’s priorities and drive advocacy success. • Hire and manage team of external consultants. Develop scopes of work, budgets, and deliverables to advance AARP’s advocacy agenda. • Build on existing relationships and identify and develop new partnerships to support the advocacy, campaign, and programmatic work of AARP’s 50 state offices and the entire enterprise to meet short and long-term strategic goals.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Cultivated and maintained strong relationships with state and local government leaders to create strong communities, influence policy, and drive innovative solutions.• Managed standing committee comprised of 35 finance professionals and external consultants charged with developing association best practices and policies. Developed projects, assigned responsibilities, monitored timeliness of work products, reviewed content, and ensured accountability of results. • Identified and promoted successful partnerships with key stakeholders in the government, non-profit, labor, and business communities, as well as other external interests that advanced the association’s vision and priorities.• Collaborated across the association and with external alliances to develop and implement winning strategies to advance association’s federal advocacy goals on issues relating to public pensions, health care, taxes, and telecommunications. • Developed and facilitated multicultural outreach activities of association’s Black Caucus and Women’s Public Finance Network, including developing content of programs, fundraising, and managing budget for group conference events. • Researched and wrote best practices and other publications on retirement and income security, pensions, health care, taxation, budget initiatives, broadband deployment, rights-of-way management, and zoning, used as models of excellence in government management by state, local, and industry leaders nationwide.• Authored legislative updates, news articles, fact sheets, and press releases updating membership on priority legislative, regulatory, and legal matters. Wrote a column in association’s bimonthly magazine, the Government Finance Review, informing 18,000 members about significant national issues and their impact on state and local governments.• Created annual conference programming for 2,500+ attendees nationwide, including developing session and presentation content, and securing speakers.

Doctor Of Law (J.D.)

B.A. In Spanish