Head of the Federation's External Affairs, overseeing advocacy, communications, and campaign efforts for legislative, political, and media initiatives. • Managed coalition engagement and strategic direction for FAH, serving as Staff Executive for key coalitions including the Coalition to Protect America's Health Care & Partnership for America's Health Care Future.• Developed and led The Real Story public affairs campaign, a multi-year project that increased FAH’s visibility with policy stakeholders and countered the negative hospital narrative within healthcare media.• Directed FAH's comprehensive political engagement program, encompassing Issue Advocacy campaigns, the Independent Expenditure Program, and FAH Hometown Hospital Program. Treasurer for the Federation’s Political Action Committee (FEDPAC).

Directed political and public affairs activities, including issue advocacy campaigns, for the Alzheimer’s Impact Movement and its political action committee - AIMPAC. • Through five election cycles, directed multi-year campaigns of grassroots, media and political activities to make Alzheimer’s a priority policy issue with state, congressional, and presidential candidates.• Trained hundreds of AIM staff on political & social media engagement, 503c(4) laws, and grassroots programs to recruit, educate, and deploy volunteers.• Recognized by multiple media outlets for AIM's political and policy impact.

Managed federal and state government advocacy programs by guiding the execution of legislative, grassroots and advocacy campaigns across the country to advance the Association's policy priorities.• Led the Association’s public affairs and grassroots advocacy efforts in Congress to increase annual funding for Alzheimer’s and dementia research at the National Institutes of Health - from $450 million in 2011 to $3.2 billion in 2021.• Directed nationwide issue advocacy campaigns on historic federal Alzheimer’s legislation including: the National Alzheimer’s Project Act, the Alzheimer’s Accountability Act, and the BOLD Infrastructure for Alzheimer’s Act.• Founded and managed the award-winning Alzheimer’s Ambassador Program, a 535-person key-contact program designed to influence members of Congress.• Organized and directed the annual Alzheimer's Association Advocacy Forum, Washington’s largest voluntary health organization fly-in on Capitol Hill with more than 1300 advocate attendees.

Managed legislative, political and grassroots strategy to advance AMA’s federal initiatives and state policy goals within a twenty-state portfolio of medical societies.• Led advocacy training and political guidance to state medical societies and physician advocates on priority health care-related issues - including but not limited to implementation of state health system reform, physician Medicare reimbursement, medical liability reform, scope of practice, Medicaid, and various public health issues.• Expanded the AMA’s grassroots communication strategy to its physician members and increased the Patients Action Network from 100,000 patient volunteers to a network of more than 800,000.• Budgeted, allocated and distributed political action committee contributions for hundreds of candidates in U.S. House and Senate races after comprehensive district and state political analysis.• Developed and managed multi-million dollar budgets for the AMA’s legislative advocacy campaigns and independent expenditures.• AMA liaison for all Democratic political campaigns, including presidential candidates, and campaign committees (DNC, DCCC, DSCC, DGA).

Senior staff for Senator Hollings in SC, leading engagement local governments, state legislators, and business and community leaders. Worked directly with senators and staff on the U.S. Senate Appropriations and Commerce committees on more than 200 grants and earmark requests for local and state projects.

Created and directed all public events for Secretary Richard W. Riley. Devised and implemented communication strategy and message outreach for the Secretary and White House regarding education issues. Represented the Secretary during political activities and meetings with the White House, Democratic political committees, and candidates.

Developed and supervised message strategy for all of First Lady’s domestic and international public events. Created and directed all aspects of the First Lady’s schedule. Served as a liaison between the First Lady’s Office and the Secret Service, federal agencies, U.S. Embassies, foreign governments, congressional offices and private businesses regarding the First Lady’s travel.