Allie Gardner

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Allexa Gardner

is a Senior Research Associate at the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy’s Center for Children and Families.

Allie Gardner is a Senior Research Associate at the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy’s Center for Children and Families (CCF). She has a Master’s in Public Policy from Georgetown University’s McCourt School and a BS in Economics from the University of Alabama specializing in Public Policy and Law. Allie served as CCF’s Graduate Research Intern prior to her becoming a Research Associate. Before joining CCF, she worked on domestic health policy at a state children’s hospital as well as foreign policy issues while serving in the public sector.

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