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Marina Thornton
Marina Thornton assists the health policy team with research and drafting policy content. Thornton most recently served as an Integration Coordinator at Envision Physician Services. Thornton holds a ...
Adam Axler
Senior Policy Analyst Adam Axler works primarily on health care value, the quality and expense of people’s care. Prior to joining Families USA, Axler served as health and education policy advisor t...
Ben Anderson
Deputy Senior Director, Health Policy Ben Anderson leads Families USA’s efforts to improve maternal and child health. Anderson comes to Families USA from the Children’s Defense Fund in New York. ...
Stephanie Altman
Stephanie Altman directs the Shriver Center on Poverty Law’s work to uncover systemic inequities and create new pathways for opportunity through legislation and system changes. She also directs the ...
Stephani Becker
Stephani Becker conducts policy research, data analysis, trainings and advocacy on a range of health care issues, including the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and access to public benefits for the Shriver ...
Hazel Law
Hazel Law is a Policy Analyst who assists the policy team across all of their work. Prior to joining Families USA, Law was a research and communications intern with Applied Policy. There, she assisted...
Staci Lofton
Staci Lofton is the Senior Director for Health Equity at Families USA. She is a public health leader with 17 years of experience fighting to make our health care system work for people regardless of t...
Aaron Plotke
Senior Policy Analyst Aaron Plotke provides policy and data analysis on key issues such as Medicaid, prescription drug prices, and health equity for the policy team. Prior to joining Families USA, ...
Arielle Kane
Director, Medicaid Initiatives Arielle Kane leads all of Families USA’s work related to Medicaid. Before working at Families, Kane was the director of health care policy at the Progressive Policy...