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Cristy Gallagher

Senior Consulting Fellow for State Policy

Cristy Gallagher is a State Policy Consulting Fellow for Third Way. She previously served as the Washington Representative for the Governors of Missouri and New Jersey. She served in the Clinton administration in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) with HHS Secretary Donna Shalala focusing on issues ranging from welfare reform to Medicaid. Her greatest accomplishments were helping shepherd the reauthorization of Head Start and the Violence Against Women Act. She received her Master’s degree in Public Affairs from the University of Texas Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs.

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