Leigh Gibson is the vice president of social policy. She previously served as a senior policy officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, working to design and implement grantmaking strategies to increase the effectiveness of the Foundation’s investments in federal, state, and local policy change to advance health equity.
Gibson has also served as senior director of State Network Advancement and Leadership at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP). At CBPP, she was part of the Center’s State Fiscal Project senior leadership team that coordinated the State Priorities Partnership (SPP), a network of more than 40 nationally acclaimed state policy organizations.
Gibson has received her A.B., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees at Princeton University and her M.S.W. at Hunter College School of Social Work, City University of New York.