Jesse Cross-Call is the Director of State Medicaid Strategy. He works with the Center’s state and national partners on the development of research products, communication strategies, and campaign plans to advance policies that expand health coverage and address inequities in access to care and health outcomes.

Prior to joining the Center, Cross-Call served as chief of staff to Alaska’s Senate Majority Leader where he worked on the development of the state’s substance misuse treatment programs. Prior to that, he worked on national and state-level political campaigns.

Cross-Call received his master’s in Public Administration from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University and his bachelor’s in American History from Northwestern University.

You can follow him on twitter at @jcrosscall.