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Mikulski staffer moves to lobby for nurses serving low-income new mothers

Posted by Jenna Ebersole on Nov. 4, 2014

A Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) congressional staffer has taken her experience to a government affairs job at the Nurse-Family Partnership.

Teri Curtis Weathers started on the Hill as a Mikulski intern during law school at Howard University in 2007 and returned in 2008 as law clerk with the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. In 2009, she began as Mikulski's legislative assistant and moved into the title of counsel in the spring of 2013.

But in October, Weathers switched to the Denver-based Nurse-Family Partnership to serve as director of federal policy and government affairs. The nonprofit connects nurses with vulnerable or low-income new mothers, starting with home visits during pregnancy and continuing until the child turns 2.

The organization began lobbying efforts in 2005 and has advocated on its impact on Medicaid recipients and on issues ranging from the Affordable Care Act to U.S. Health and Human Services appropriations.

Weathers earned her JD from Howard in 2008 and holds a bachelor's in government and politics, criminology and criminal justice from the University of Maryland, College Park.