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My work focuses on the future of health and public health. Leveraging experience from the public and private sectors, I bring entrepreneurial methodologies and a tech-forward design mindset to social and public challenges. I tend to think and operate across sectors and business lines to improve the products, programs, and services that impact human and population health. I think holistically and enjoy complex systems. I also like Cherry Garcia, the FroYo version, brought to you by Ben and Jerry's. (It's the best one!)
I was an early employee at the Center for Medicaid & Medicare Innovation. As Director of Digital, I oversaw a team of designers and engineers that built up our digital assets and folded them into the broader CMS apparatus, all while managing the high-visibility release and public launch of the those early CMMI Models and communications. I was a founding member of the HHS Idea Lab, an Obama-era innovation team within the Office of the CTO at the US Department of Health & Human Services modernizing government from the inside. I worked at the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy, wearing communications, media relations, and program-improvement hats.
I recently spent 5 years at Unite Us, a technology company connecting health and social services, where I played key roles in the company growing from a $200M valuation to $2B. I joined on the business side when the company was a true start up, leading sales, business development, and partnership efforts on the west coast. I helped form our Policy team, leading our West Coast policy work and finally ending by creating and leading our Federal Affairs portfolio.
I am also Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for the National Center for Healthy Housing. Founded in the 1990s as the National Center for Lead-Safe Housing, NCHH is a national backbone organization advancing research, policy, and programs to help ensure everyone has a safe and healthy home. One of the most significant years of my early life was as a AmeriCorps volunteer in Jacksonville, Florida where I helped enroll families in the State's Children's Health Insurance Program.
I have a Bachelors of Science in Biology from Trinity University and a Masters of Public Health from Boston University, and live in my home state of Texas, town of Austin.
Links to my email and LinkedIn account are below. I'm open for:
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