
Steph Sterling
Vice President and Senior Advisor
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As Vice President and Senior Advisor, Steph Sterling provides strategic guidance to Roosevelt’s senior team to help strengthen the organization’s work engaging policymakers, elected officials, and partner organizations.
As Vice President and Senior Advisor, Steph Sterling provides strategic guidance to Roosevelt’s senior team to help strengthen the organization’s work engaging policymakers, elected officials, and partner organizations.
Sterling previously served as Director of Strategic Initiatives and Legislative Director at the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), where she drove a program to strengthen the care economy and led the organization’s legislative efforts on behalf of the union’s 2.1 million members. Prior to SEIU, she was Senior Advisor and Director of Government Relations at the National Women’s Law Center, where she developed and advanced policies to improve the lives of low-income women, including key policies included in the Affordable Care Act. She has led policy and communications efforts for a congressional candidate, served as professional staff on a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee subcommittee, and worked as a legislative aide to Sen. Barbara Mikulski. She holds a JD from Georgetown University Law Center and a BA from Brown University.
Publications By The Author
Industrial Policy and Planning: A New (Old) Approach to Policymaking for a New Era
August 10, 2021
By Todd N. Tucker, Steph Sterling
Supply-Side Childcare Investments: Policies to Develop an Equitable and Stable Childcare Industry
August 10, 2021
By Suzanne Kahn, Steph Sterling
Lowering Drug Prices: A Blueprint for Reform
November 1, 2019
By Julie Margetta Morgan, Steph Sterling
New Rules for the 21st Century: Corporate Power, Public Power, and the Future of Prescription Drug Policy in the United States
October 28, 2019
By Steph Sterling, Julie Margetta Morgan
Beyond the Budget: How the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Increases Inequality and Exacerbates Our High-Profit, Low-Wage Economy
June 20, 2018
By Steph Sterling, Marshall Steinbaum
Latest By The Author
The American Rescue Plan: An Economic Success Story Worth Telling
March 11, 2022
By Steph Sterling
Build Back Better’s Care Investments Offer a New Way to Think about the Role of Government
October 8, 2021
By Steph Sterling
Seeds of Progressive Change: Rethinking Our Market-Based Medicines System
April 1, 2020
By Steph Sterling