Artrese joined Health Leads in August 2020 and facilitates program design, development, implementation, and operations. Artrese has over twenty-five years of expertise in leadership roles managing government and nonprofit programs. Before joining Health Leads, Artrese directed programs for the Alameda County Community Food Bank and served as a senior leader for Project Open Hand. Artrese is a dynamic leader who inspires and develops people, a respected and accomplished activator who consistently communicates a clear vision and strategy for reaching goals, and an engaging relationship builder who develops authentic and collaborative working relationships to unify people and inspire innovative ideas. Along with being a wife and mother of a teenage son, Artrese holds a 3rd-degree Black belt in Hapkido.

Beth Johnson brings over fifteen years of experience managing national projects and learning collaboratives to inform and support 211/CIE San Diego’s national movement. She co-facilitates collaborative learning events and supports technical assistance for communities nationwide in the early stages of planning and implementing community information exchanges (CIEs). Before joining 211/CIE San Diego, Beth was a director at AcademyHealth, developing collaborative learning infrastructure for researchers and communities to share best practices, challenges, and lessons learned around using and exchanging electronic data to improve population health and patient outcomes.

Tiffany Clarke (she/her) is a nonprofit executive with over 12 years of experience in grantmaking, program, and fiscal design/oversight. Tiffany spent 10 years leading a team of 27+ FTEs at a global nonprofit, where she successfully increased revenue by securing nearly 40 million dollars. She has a master’s degree in social work and holds both clinical and macro licensure in the State of Michigan. Tiffany has extensive experience serving on funding allocation committees, teaching as an adjunct professor at the graduate level, and advocating for community change by sitting on various system-level committee boards. When not working, Tiffany can be found taking her Labrador on walks, eating sushi, watching her kids in sports, or engaging in home renovation despite her husband’s chagrin.

Prior to working with Catholic Family Services as the MatureMinds Coordinator, Jenna engaged older adults through virtual platforms, worked in family ministry, and directed a youth centre. Her educational background is in Community Recreation from Brock University and Niagara College. For over a decade, Jenna has been a “storyteller” for those whose voices often get lost in the shuffle. Through both poetry and prose, she has advocated for the encouragement and resiliency found in others. In recent years, Jenna has become a spokesperson against ageism, recognizing that a cultural shift needs to occur if we are to see “growing old” as an opportunity, not a liability. Jenna is passionate about her faith, puns, and people. She wants people to know that they are valued and firmly believes that the greatest superpower is hope. 

Allie Gardner is the Senior Research Associate at the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy’s Center for Children and Families (CCF). Her work focuses on eligibility and enrollment policy, with a current emphasis on unwinding the COVID-19 continuous coverage protection. She also works on Medicaid section 1115 demonstration policies. Allie served as CCF’s Graduate Research Intern before her current role. Before joining CCF, she worked on domestic health policy at a state children’s hospital, as well as foreign economic policy issues, while serving in the public sector. She has a Master’s in Public Policy from Georgetown’s McCourt School and a BS in Economics from the University of Alabama, specializing in Public Policy and Law. 

Jennifer Wagner is the Director of Medicaid Eligibility & Enrollment with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. She focuses on how policy, operations, and technology can improve the enrollment experience for clients and staff and ensure more eligible individuals access needed supports. She also advances policies to increase coordination among public benefit programs, including SNAP, WIC, and TANF. Previously, she was an Associate Director with the Illinois Department of Human Services, where she was responsible for SNAP and TANF policy and oversaw local office operations statewide. Jennifer played a major role in the modernization of policy, business processes, and technology in connection with Affordable Care Act implementation in Illinois. She was also a Skadden Fellow at the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law. She is a 2008 graduate of Northwestern University School of Law and holds a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.