Shelby Gonzales
Shelby Gonzales (she/her) is the Vice President for Immigration Policy. She focuses primarily on leading the Center’s work related to access to public benefit and other supports for immigrants and their families. Gonzales also provides strategic direction related to implementation of effective outreach and program simplification strategies to promote enrollment and retention in benefit programs. From 2011 to 2015, Gonzales served as a member of the Advisory Panel on Outreach and Education, which provides expertise to the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator on matters related to education and outreach to enroll and retain individuals in health coverage programs. She currently sits on the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Children’s Health Insurance Program Advisory Committee, is a board member of the Commonwealth Institute for Fiscal Analysis, and is on the executive committee for the Protecting Immigrant Families coalition.