Full Name
Casey Jonas
Job Title
Legal Director, Health Justice & Public Benefits Program
Company
Legal Aid Justice Center
Speaker Bio
Casey Trombley-Shapiro Jonas oversees Legal Aid Justice Center's Health Justice and Public Benefits Program. The program's work centers on improving healthcare access and outcomes for Virginians experiencing poverty to promote health equity and reduce disparities. This requires improving many different systems that impact social determinants of health, and Casey's team's work covers a broad range of issues including securing income support, improving health-promoting public benefits programs (such as Medicaid and SNAP), expanding insurance coverage, fighting for mental health infrastructure, preventing medical debt/medical debt collection actions, and redressing disability-based discrimination.