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Ceci Thunes is a State Advocacy Manager for the Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation. In this role, Ceci handles relationships with state-based advocacy organizations throughout the country, providing advocacy campaign guidance to consumer advocates, providers, and policymakers who are working to improve state and local health programs to better serve the needs of consumers, particularly those who are low-income or have complex health challenges.
Before coming to Community Catalyst, Ceci was a behavioral health policy specialist with Idaho Voices for Children. There she led a stakeholder group of behavioral health consumer advocates who collectively raised awareness of, and offered recommendations for, Idaho’s fractured behavioral health care system. Their influence and credibility ensured their inclusion in shaping integration efforts in Idaho, especially as they relate to the consumer experience. Before that, Ceci worked with bicycle and pedestrian advocates to include more funding from Idaho’s Legislature for Safe Routes to School education and projects. Ceci holds a BA in Economics and a minor in Political Science from Boise State University in Boise, Idaho.
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Community Catalyst is a national non-profit advocacy organization working to build consumer and community leadership to transform the American health system. Their first priority is quality, affordable health care for all and to ensure that all individuals and communities sustain the power to influence local, state and national decisions that affect their health. Since 1998, they have provided leadership and support to consumer organizations, policymakers and foundations working to ensure the health care system serves everyone – especially historically marginalized communities.