Staff Bio: Coco Jervis

Coco Jervis joins CHAMP as the Director of Policy and Leadership Development. She was most recently the Assistant Director of Health Policy at Gay Men's Health Crisis, where she served as the assistant editor of Treatment Issues and worked to expand access to Medicaid and Medicare for people living with HIV/AIDS. Coco has worked in a variety of legal and public policy settings, including as a law clerk for the Whitman Walker Clinic and the New York City Commission on Human Rights, and as an Everett fellow with Public Citizen's Congress Watch project, where she assisted in the publication of two reports on the lobby tactics of big PhRMA and the inflated research and development costs of prescription drugs. Coco earned a B.A. from City University of New York-Hunter College and a J.D. from Howard University School of Law.