Kate Forrest is MPHA’s Coalition and Policy Manager. Kate joined the MPHA staff in September 2023 after spending the previous year as our graduate student intern while earning her MSW from Boston College’s School of Social Work. Prior to working at MPHA, she served as an Advocacy and Legislative intern at PUSH for Empowered Pregnancy, a national nonprofit dedicated to ending preventable stillbirth in the United States. Kate dedicates her career to improving health disparities through advocacy and community organizing, led by her lived experience and the justice-centered principles of the social work profession.