We are thrilled to announce that Leslie Bennett has joined the NoHLA team in a newly-created position – Policy and Communications Specialist. Leslie has more than twenty years of experience in health care policy, advocacy, and communications on both the east and west coasts. Most recently, she was Senior Communications Manager at the Washington Health Alliance, a nonprofit collaborative of purchasers, providers, insurers, and consumers working to improve the quality and reduce the cost of health care across Washington state. 

Previously, she was the Director of the Commercial Insurance Appeals Project at Health Law Advocates in Boston, Assistant General Counsel at the Massachusetts Health Connector, Assistant Attorney General in the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office, and Staff Attorney with the Community Health Assets Project, where she represented community interests in nonprofit hospital conversions at Consumers Union in San Francisco, the advocacy effort of the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports. Before that, she worked as a radio news reporter at KUOW in Seattle and National Public Radio affiliated stations in New Hampshire and California. Leslie attended Emerson College and Northeastern University Law School. 

In her free time, Leslie enjoys gardening, yoga, and all kinds of film.