Elizabeth Lower-Basch Email & Phone Number

Falls Church, VA, US

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Represented CLASP at high-profile events and act as a thought leader. Provided expert guidance and leadership to CLASP’s five policy teams, overseeing two-thirds of the organization’s employees. Coached team directors.
• Updated and streamlined annual organizational planning process to focus on setting priorities, sharing lessons learned and identifying ways to respond to changing circumstances with maximal impact. Combined duplicative.
• Developed and led cross-organization areas of work, recognizing that the same families are impacted by many of the different programs and policies that CLASP works on. Key priorities include multi-generational.
• Led CLASP’s involvement on foundation project in which 10 organizations collaboratively co-designed shared goals, structure, governance and budget for $14 million in pooled funds.

• Built Income and Work Supports issue area team advocating and providing technical assistance on the full range of public benefit programs. Recruited, hired and developed staff from research assistants to senior policy.
• Developed and secured funding for a major project on improving policy and practice in the delivery of public benefits so people with low income can receive the full range of supports for which they are eligible, with.
• Together with partners at CLASP and the National Immigration Law Center (NILC), conceived, launched and implemented the multi-sector Protecting Immigrant Families (PIF) campaign in response to threats to low-income.
• Led Income and Work Supports team to identify racial equity as a core goal of our work and to develop the knowledge and self-awareness needed to speak about racism in public benefits programs.

• Analyzed policy proposals, made recommendations, synthesized research findings, conducted legislative and administrative advocacy, and provided technical assistance to policymakers and advocates through papers and.
• During the Great Recession, identified that states were leaving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Emergency Fund money on the table. Conducted real-time research and delivered intensive technical.

Appointed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) as a policy expert to a Congressionally mandated advisory commission charged with analyzing how USDA programs, policies, systems, structures and practices contribute to barriers to inclusion or access, systemic discrimination, or exacerbate or perpetuate racial, economic, health and social.

• Policy Analyst for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Division of Human Services Policy.
• Reviewed proposed TANF and job training policies in support of senior Administration officials. Analyzed expected effects on families with low incomes and on state and local governments.
• Based on assessment of upcoming issues, developed and managed portfolio of research on programs that affect families with low incomes. Synthesized research on AFDC waivers and TANF "leaver" studies, including first.

Mpp

Thesis: Employment in the Health Care Industry as an Economic Resource for Boston

Ba, History

Phi Beta Kappa, Magna cum laude and with Distinction in History. New York Labor History Association Wertheimer Award for an outstanding.