In her role as Senior Director of Federal Policy & Advocacy at USofCare, Lisa leads a team of policy experts and strategists to advance the organization’s health advocacy agenda with Congress and the administration. Her work largely focuses on affordability, access, and translating what people want and need from the health care system into policy solutions for federal uptake. Lisa brings to the USofCare almost twenty years of experience working to expand access to affordable health care through roles in the federal government, nonprofits, electoral campaigns, and the private sector. Most recently, Lisa led strategic partnerships at Families USA, and oversaw advocacy and government affairs at the Better Medicare Alliance. Prior to joining the advocacy community, Lisa spent several years as a consultant with Avalere Health helping clients operationalize regulations with respect to the Affordable Care Act and Medicare Advantage. Early in her career she served as a political appointee at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services during the Obama Administration, as a Congressional staffer, and as a Peace Corps volunteer teaching literacy at a primary school in Guyana. Lisa’s expertise on health policy implications for everyday people appear in media outlets such as the New York Times, Axios, Politico, Inside Health Policy, The Hill, Fierce Healthcare, and others.