• Responsible for implementing principal elements that the Policy and Government Affairs Department directs in support of ASN’s Vision and Mission. Guide the Policy Department’s work in these areas through policy communications, messaging, outreach strategic planning and execution, and writing. • Create policy communications and advocacy outreach plans to focus on the need to ensure access to quality kidney care for the 40 million Americans with kidney diseases. • Draft web content, articles for Kidney News, Kidney News Online, ASN’s In the Loop – a daily news feed to all members, Call-To-Action alerts, Tweets, Facebook, and Instagram posts, and supporting materials as needed. • Coordinate with ASN’s online Communities to facilitate information dissemination and discussion. • Analyze rules/legislation, research existing statutes.• Draft comment language on proposed Medicare rules.• Specifically, worked/working on ASN comment letters and position papers on MACRA, both MIPS and APMS; quality initiatives found in the proposals/proposed rules of CMS and CMMI on ESRD PPS QIP; PPFS; AKI; and the ESCO program. • Develop positioning and public language on the Living Donor Protection Act, the Patient Act, and the ESRD Choice Act. • Tie work to ASN positioning and explore outreach options.

8 years legislative experience on Cap Hill and legislative/regulatory advocacy in the private sector.Mission:Strategies, Inc. Founded/manage an independent consulting practice in legislative/issue and media outreach. Develop/implement public affairs/policy strategy through legislative outreach/coalition building. Represent 9/11 Family Members United for Justice Against Terrorism before Congress and directly with staff at congressional meetings/hearings. Write all legislative proposals/position papers on legislation.Senior Vice President, The Kamber Group, 1991-1998 Headed a public affairs team providing support for legislative operations for a broad range of clients. Oversaw the legislative operations for 5-year legislative/legal campaign by 46 Attorneys General against tobacco companies for health consequences to the public and to bring tobacco products under Food and Drug Administration oversight.Communications Director/Legislative Assistant, Rep. Michael Bilirakis, (9th D-FL), 1988-91. Serving a senior member and then Chairman of the Health and Environment Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, developed legislative strategy and communications on a broad range of health care legislation and the seminal 1990 Clean Air Act. Also, developed media strategy, handled all public communications, and oversaw development of all public statements, testimony, hearing remarks, press releases, editorials and legislative correspondence.Hearings Editor, House Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran, 1987-1988. Coordinated with offices of all Select Comm. Members and staff to compare transcripts, proposed edits and hearing recordings to ensure an accurate record.Correspondence Editor, Sen. Mark Andrews, (ND), 1985-87 Assistant to Legislative Director, Sen. Al D’Amato, (NY), 1983-85 Prepared legislative correspondence, floor statements, testimony/committee statements, monitored legislation, prepared leg. reports.

• Manage legislative outreach for The 9/11 Families United For Justice Against Terrorism which includes over 6,000 family members and survivors who want those who provide aid to terrorist groups, specifically those who aided the 9/11 hijackers, to be held accountable. o Hands-on strategist and national coordinator advocating for passage of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (S. 2040/H.R. 3815) by the House and Senate Judiciary Committees.o Prepare all legislative materials including position papers and legislative proposals, reports, testimony, correspondence, material packages and manage daily operations.• Worked on external messaging advocating support for Sections 1502 and 1504 of the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill on the reporting the provenance of minerals deemed to be “conflict minerals” from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

• 8 years of legislative experience in the U.S. Senate and the U.S House of Representatives. o Congressman Bilirakis was a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Health and Environment Subcommittee and later served as Chairman. o Developed legislative strategies and served as the public spokesperson on all issues including health care reform, the Catastrophic Health Care Act and its later repeal, drug reimbursement, dietary supplements, food safety, and the regulation of organic foods. o Performed these functions as the Committee developed and passed the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, the last major revision of this seminal public health and environmental law. o Managed legislation related to Interior Department and its appropriations. o Assisted with organizing the Florida delegation into a unified position which led to a ban on any petroleum activities within 15 miles of the entire Florida coastline. o Spearheaded legislative strategy on the Marine Mammal Protection Act Amendments of 1988. • State Attorneys General v. Big Tobacco. Served as the Washington advisor for the 46 Attorneys General involved in the largest settlement in U.S. history. These efforts led to a Global Tobacco Agreement considered by Congress and resulted in congressional hearings and legislative initiatives. o Served as the organization’s policy advocate for this landmark settlement. o Prepared hearing and legislative reports, legislative correspondence, congressional testimony, legislation summaries and proposals for the Attorneys General.o Worked with the 11 congressional committees with jurisdiction over the proposals in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

Eight years of legislative experience garnered through my work in various capacities in the United States Senate and the U.S House of Representatives. Communications Director and Legislative Assistant for Congressman Mike Bilirakis (9th District – Florida) from 1988-1991. Congressman Bilirakis was a senior member of the Health and Environment Subcommittee and later Chairman. He was also a senior member of the full House Energy and Commerce Committee. The Energy and Commerce Committee has jurisdiction over Medicare Part B, Medicaid, the FDA, food and drug safety laws and most environmental laws. Heavily involved in legislative strategy and served as the public spokesperson on all issues including health care reform, the Catastrophic Health Care Act and its later repeal, drug reimbursement, dietary supplements, food safety, and the regulation of organic foods. Performed these functions as the Committee developed and passed the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, the last major rewrite of this seminal public health and environmental law.