Expertise
Social policy; welfare reform; health care; federalism; community development; public administration; Congress; children and family policy; federal-state policy issues affecting low-income families and communities
Background
Current Positions
Executive Director, O'Neill Institute on National and Global Health Law; Visiting Professor of Law, Georgetown University
Past Positions
Senior Fellow, Annie E. Casey Foundation;Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (1997-1999);Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (1993-1996);Senior Official, Clinton-Gore campaign (1992);Legal Counsel, U.S. Senator David Pryor (1989-1991);Clerk, Chief Judge John Grady, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (1988);Associate, Hopkins and Sutter, Chicago, Illinois;Investigator to the Senate Special Committee on Aging
Education
J.D., (1987), B.A., (1983), Georgetown University