Director Of State Strategies
Current
Washington, D.C. And Durham, North Carolina
Co-lead our organizations' 11-person state campaigns team, with a focus on managing our federal-state campaigns and strategies to influence national policy debates and state-based funding initiatives and efforts to protect and strengthen anti-poverty programs. Work across CBPP to leverage our legislative, policy, and communications expertise to win more. Spent last two years overseeing our crisis-born federal safety net defense campaigns, including directing millions in field investments, overseeing consultants and field communications strategies, and leading staff to defend the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, and SNAP. Now looking forward to multi-year state and federal strategies to go on offense on policies and programs that boost incomes for people struggling to make ends meet and help them afford the basics.