Speaker's Profile

Erin Fitzgerald serves as Head of Communications and Payer Marketing at Headway, a tech platform that has empowered more than 25,000 high-quality therapists and psychiatrists to actively accept insurance. Prior, she served as Vice President of Marketing, Communications, and External Affairs at Quartet Health, an early pioneer to advance integrated mental health and primary care. During the Obama Administration, Erin worked on the frontlines of passage and implementation of the Affordable Care Act at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and served in the White House. She has a background in strategy consulting, including at Team Rubicon Global, a veteran-led disaster response organization aimed at improving veteran reintegration and mental health. Erin began her career as an aide to then-U.S.Senator Barack Obama, and helped to launch the communications team on the 2008 Obama campaign. She is also a founding partner of The Arena, a national organization that trains and supports the next generation of civic leaders. Erin earned her B.S. from Northwestern University and her Masters of Public Policy from Harvard University, where she taught grassroots organizing and movement building with Professor Marshall Ganz.