Vice President for Health and Justice Policy
Legal Action Center
Washington, District of Columbia
Gabrielle de la Guéronnière, J.D.
Vice President for Health and Justice Policy, Legal Action Center
Gabrielle de la Guéronnière leads the Center’s federal policy advocacy to expand and improve the health responses to substance use, and to end discrimination against people with drug and alcohol histories and arrest/conviction records. Ms. de la Guéronnière directed the Center’s federal advocacy toward passage into law of the Second Chance Act reentry legislation and successful inclusion of strong addiction and mental health provisions in the Affordable Care Act. Ms. de la Guéronnière currently works with Congress and the Administration to ensure that the federal health care reform law is implemented well for people with addiction and mental health service needs and those in the criminal legal system; and to eliminate legal and policy barriers faced by people with arrest/conviction records and drug addiction histories. Ms. de la Guéronnière is a frequent national presenter and technical assistance provider on a host of health and criminal justice policy issues.
Ms. de la Guéronnière joined the Legal Action Center’s Washington, DC, office in 2003. Ms. de la Guéronnière is a graduate of Boston
University and American University’s Washington College of Law.
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