As I prepare to leave on a family vacation, I wanted to welcome publicly the newest member of CCF’s team Sonya Schwartz. Sonya is probably known to many of you from her work for the past eight years at the National Academy of State Health Policy where she most recently directed the State Refor(u)m project. I met Sonya when she worked as a Senior Health Policy Analyst at Families USA, where she worked prior to joining NASHP.
An attorney by training, Sonya will join the research faculty of the Georgetown University Public Policy Institute. Her many years of experience and knowledge of the health care system, particularly in this time of great change, will be an enormous asset to CCF — as will her commitment to our mission of ensuring that low-income children and their families have affordable, high quality coverage. She will join some of our state teams and will dive into numerous substantive issues at both the federal and state level as time progresses.
And in other good news, our extraordinarily talented consultant on issues affecting immigrant families, Dinah Wiley, will also be joining the research faculty at Georgetown University as she consolidates her work under the CCF banner. We are thrilled by this development as Dinah is one of the leading national experts on the intersection of health and immigration law. And it is a plus to have a certified yoga teacher in the workplace as we enter the next phase of health reform implementation.
Both Sonya and Dinah will begin on July 1st.