Led successful lobbying efforts to expand public charter school options for families, provide public charter schools with greater regulatory flexibility and streamline the public charter school approval and renewal process.

Directed the lobbying team that passed landmark health care legislation integrating behavioral and physical health care benefits and services for North Carolina Medicaid patients.

With one of my colleagues, lobbied successfully to get $9.1 million in funding for the six Feeding the Carolinas Food Banks operating in North Carolina.

Directed the lobbying effort to recover $4.1 million for children with disabilities attending certain public charter schools after those schools did not receive the allocation of those funds from the state that they should have received during the previous school year.

Lobbied successfully for $2 million in recurring funds to provide competitive grants to sheriffs’ offices to assist in establishing, maintaining, or expanding medication-assisted treatment programs for alcohol and opioid addiction in jails.

Led the lobbying effort to require all school Exceptional Children programs to allow a student with a disability who has an existing health care provider in another setting (e.g., student’s residence) to keep that health care provider in the school setting.

With one of my colleagues, lobbied successfully for legislation to add creditor protections for students with tax-advantaged college savings accounts.

Led the lobbying effort to secure funding for a program to educate and train medical assistants, working with North Carolina federally qualified community health centers.

Lobbied successfully for funding for the Life Changing Experiences educational program to address activities that negatively affect teenagers such as bullying, drugs and alcohol, and dangerous driving.

Lobbied successfully to update state insurance laws to improve the financial stability of domestic insurance companies by providing them with greater, and timelier, access to capital.

Lobbied successfully, pro bono, with state and national Jewish organizations to enact the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism, providing guidance to government, educational institutions, and law enforcement agencies on identifying and responding to antisemitic incidents.

Lobbied successfully, pro bono, with state and national Jewish organizations to enact legislation that ensures that the state does not do business with any party that engages in discriminatory business practices or boycotts against the State of Israel.

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