FORA.tv Speaker - Karen Davenport

Karen Davenport is Director of Health Policy at the Center for American Progress. Before joining American Progress, she served as Washington Director for the Medicare Rights Center, coordinating the organization's national policy activities, partnership development and fund-raising activities.

As a Senior Program Officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, she developed and managed national programs dedicated to increasing health insurance coverage - including Covering Kids and Families and Covering America: Real Remedies for the Uninsured - and improving long-term care financing and services for frail elders and people with disabilities.