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Caught Our Eye

• Gates Foundation hires Sen. Klobuchar LD

  Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Aug. 30, 2018
  Sen. Amy Klobuchar's (D-MN) legislative director has moved from the Hill to the world's largest private foundation. read more

• GOP likes the friendly skies more than Democrats

  Posted by J. Todd Foster on May 3, 2016
  Republicans in Congress took nearly three times as many privately funded trips as Democrats did in the first quarter of this year. read more

• Paulsen adult daughter travels in style to Africa

  Posted by J. Todd Foster on March 28, 2016
  A Minnesota congressman's trip to Africa is the most expensive privately financed trip of the year so far because he also had the nonprofit sponsor pick up the tab for his adult daughter. read more

• Posted by Garrett Snedeker on March 28, 2013
  How did Rep. John Garamendi (D-Calif.) earn the distinction of participating in the most expensive privately financed trip in Congress in recorded history? When the setting is the world's newest country and safe travel carries a significant premium, the costs just pile up. read more

• Posted by Jock Friedly on Sept. 15, 2011
  When Sally Canfield signed on as chief policy adviser and legislative director for Sen. Marco Rubio earlier this year, she disclosed that she had earned $142,265 from her lobbying gig with Sanofi-aventis U.S., as well as $67,218 from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Employees

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People whose biographies include Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as an employer:

• Koren Bell

  (Dec. 2018-)

  Deputy Director

• Jennifer M. Bluestein (Jen)

  (Dec. 2014-July 2019)

  Deputy Director, U.S. Advocacy and Communications

• Nicholas Scott Burton (Nick)

  (Feb. 2023-)

  Senior Program Officer

• Katy Button

  (2007-2018)

  Senior Policy and External Relations Officer

• Sally A. Canfield

  (June 2008-May 2010)

  Senior Program Officer

• Cordell Carter II

  (Aug. 2013-Aug. 2014)

  Chief of Staff and Director of Operations, U.S. Programs

• Julia F. Drost

  (Oct. 2022-)

  Senior Officer, Trustee Engagement

• James Jenkins W. Durrett II (Jim)

  (Sept. 2006-March 2008)

  Government Affairs Assistant

• Andrew M. Estrada (Andy)

  (July 2021-)

  Senior Communications Officer

• Dori S. Friedberg

  (June 2020-March 2021)

  Federal Government Relations, Program Officer

• Sara Alicia Garcia

  (July 2019-Feb. 2021)

  Program Officer

• Catherine Ann Goode

  (Dec. 2013-April 2017)

  Program Officer

• Rachel Locklear Hall

  (Sept. 2023-)

  Senior Program Officer

• Jennifer L. Hing (Jen)

  (2021-)

  Senior Federal Affairs Officer

• Montana Colleen James

  (May 2013-Nov. 2013)

  Program Assistant

• Anne M. Knapke

  (Aug. 2018-Feb. 2021)

  Senior Program Officer, Global Policy and Advocacy

• Katherine M. Lee (Katie)

  (July 2018-June 2022)

  Program Officer

• Lindsay Ann Lovlien

  (Nov. 2017-Oct. 2022)

  Senior Program Officer, Policy and Advocacy

• Melissa Salmanowitz Luce

  (Jan. 2017-)

  Senior Program Officer, Policy, Advocacy and Communications Team

• Elizabeth Marcey (Liz)

  (Sept. 2012-Aug. 2014)

  Associate Program Officer, Government Relations

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