Rogers Scholars Alumni

Julie Bromberg

Julie Bromberg joined the National Coalition on Health Care as a Health Education and Public Awareness Advisor. Ms. Bromberg has a background in public health and is primarily responsible for assessing health disparities and current health promotion efforts, as well as the impact that proposed policies may have on disparities and prevention initiatives. She has been the primary author of several new and updated fact sheets and data reports. She is currently a degree candidate for a MHS in Health Education and Health Communication at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Prior to graduate school, Ms. Bromberg worked as a health educator in East Boston, Massachusetts, focusing on childhood obesity and HIV prevention.

Catherine Doyle

Catherine Doyle joined the National Coalition on Health Care in August 2009. A recent graduate from Sargent College at Boston University, she received a B.S. degree in Health Science. During her senior year, Catherine worked for the Massachusetts Coalition of School-Based Health Centers where she helped to secure funding for school-based health centers across Massachusetts. Catherine was also actively involved in a recent Boston City Council campaign, working to successfully elect the first woman of color to the Council.

Janelle Huelsman

Janelle Huelsman, joined the National Coalition on Health Care to assist with grassroots and grasstops communication, media outreach and social media strategy, managing the launch of NCHC’s presence on Twitter and Facebook. Ms. Huelsman has worked as a city reporter for Ohio University’s student newspaper, The Post, and has served as intern at O’Bleness Memorial Hospital, Ohio University Communications and Marketing and SBC Advertising. Ms. Huelsman led public relations efforts for Scoop08 (now Scoop44), the first-ever online national newspaper by and for college students, which had an emphasis on the 2008 election season. She studied at the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, majoring in public relations with a minor in political science and a certificate from the Ohio University Global Leadership Center. As a student in the Ohio University Global Leadership Center, she worked on research projects for several international organizations, including the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, the United Nations Development Program in Liberia and the Harvard University Pluralism Project. Ms. Huelsman is also the current National Vice President of Advocacy for the Public Relations Student Society of America.

John Kane

John Kane joined the National Coalition on Health Care in May 2009, as NCHC’s Policy Analyst and Political Strategy Associate. Mr. Kane has examined the potential impact of various health care reform policies on the sustainability of such reform packages and aided in the development of the Coalition’s strategies for gaining the support of moderate and conservative members of Congress for policies and programs aligned with the Coalition’s overall mission. He has also represented the Coalition at a variety of stakeholder meetings hosted by Congressional leaders.

Kane holds a master’s degree in Philosophy from Virginia Tech and is currently pursuing a master’s in Public Administration through the Center for Public Administration and Policy at Virginia Tech, with concentrations in Policy Analysis and Policy Systems Management. Kane’s research interests lie in the areas of education and health policy, and he has written extensively on issues related to bioethics and the public interest. He is currently writing a treatise on the increased regresses of federal and state taxation policies resulting from the technology gap between urban and rural America.
 

Mary Ann Nguyen

Mary Ann Nguyen joined the National Coalition on Health Care in May 2009, as an associate with a focus on legal and public policy analysis. Ms. Nguyen brings a breadth of diverse experiences to NCHC, where she is analyzing the impact of proposed legislative and health public policy issues on minority and underserved communities, as well as examining other issues related to disparate health care delivery. She is from Santa Clara, California, and is entering her second year as a graduate law student at Santa Clara University’s School of Law. She has previously worked in the corporate world for Bank of America and Cepheid. At Bank of America, she worked in the Premier Banking and Investments division as a compliance auditor to ensure regulatory compliance with federal anti-money laundering provisions. Ms. Nguyen also handled contractual agreements with private health care industries and government organizations at Cepheid, a biotechnology company based in Sunnyvale, California.

Amelia J. West

Amelia West serves as the Executive Assistant with the National Coalition on Health Care. A recent graduate of the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., Amelia holds a BA in Public Policy with specific focus in Healthcare policy; Amelia also minored in Sociology, where she concentrated in poverty and urban studies. During her tenure at GW, Amelia worked with the University to schedule speakers, plan events, and send students across the country to campaign for the 2008 presidential election.  A native of Westport, CT, Amelia founded the non-profit “Kakes for Kids” which delivers birthday cakes to kids in homeless shelters, and remains deeply committed to issues of poverty and education among children.

 Eleyda Negrón

Eleyda Negrón joined the National Coalition on Health Care in January of 2010. Ms. Negrón completed a BS in Medical Technology at Universidad del Sagrado Corazón (University of the Sacred Heart) in her native San Juan, Puerto Rico. Ms. Negrón previously worked for hospitals in Illinois and California respectively and in summer 2009 was admitted to the Extended MPH Degree Program at University of Washington in Seattle. Ms. Negrón recently volunteered for the City of Berkeley Public Health Division and the Berkeley Free Clinic, a community-based organization that provides basic medical services for no charge.