Health Policy and Organizational Consultant

Renée Despres is an independent journalist and health policy and organizational consultant with more than 20 years’ experience working with public and private agencies. She specializes in rural and U.S.-Mexico border health. She served as a research fellow at the Burrell Institute for Health Policy and Research from January to June 2017, where she was the lead author of a comprehensive review of the potential impacts of proposed changes to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). As a member of the National Center for Frontier Communities’ Nonprofit Resource Group Consultant Community of Practice, she provides organizational consulting services to nonprofits, specializing in strategic planning, board development, and grant-writing.