Accessing the Halls of Government
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Stephanie DeLuca joins Down to the Struts to discuss her work as a legislative assistant for Senator Tammy Duckworth, where she works on health care and disability policy.
Stephanie shares her journey as a disabled scientist to the halls of Congress, how her experiences as a disabled person have informed her approach to public policy, and the need to break down barriers and expand opportunities for disabled people to inform the laws and policies that affect all of our daily lives.
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Stephanie DeLuca, Ph.D., is currently a Legislative Assistant with Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois. Stephanie has served in this position, working on healthcare and disability policy, since November 2020. Prior to her current role, she was a Senior Legislative Aide for Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, where she worked on public health policy, from March 2019 to October 2020.
Stephanie was the Biophysical Society/AAAS Congressional Fellow from 2016 to 2017 in the Office of Senator Elizabeth Warren, where she worked on healthcare policy, including drug pricing, Medicaid, protecting the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and addressing the opioid epidemic (which she also covers now). Stephanie also has experience in the campaign and non-profit sector: She was the American Chemical Society Science Policy Fellow from 2014 to 2016, and she has served as a project manager at MoveOn and organized for political campaigns. Stephanie was a graduate student in the lab of Jens Meiler and received her Ph.D. from the Vanderbilt Chemical and Physical Biology Program in 2015.
