Ronnie Tepp, MPP

Ronnie Tepp has spent the past three decades working to craft and advance policy and programs to improve outcomes for patients. Over the past seven years, she has built and scaled a national network of more than 100 diverse community and healthcare provider organizations, as well as the infrastructure to educate and support these trusted messengers in bringing awareness of the National Institute of Health's All of Us Research Program to their communities.

In addition to her skill in partnership development, Ronnie specializes in strategy and policy development, coalition-building, strategic planning, facilitation and advocacy. She has a talent for bringing stakeholders and nontraditional groups together to develop and advance collective agendas. She has an impressive track record and has proactively identified opportunities to promote good policy, helped organizations and communities coalesce around a common strategy and built trust internally to maximize their impact. The result has been the development of formidable coalitions that have succeeded in uniting and amplifying the voice of their communities and affecting change for the benefit of patients and families.

Ronnie’s career has included service as a senior-level congressional staffer during the health reform debates of the 1990s, vice president of a lobbying firm representing academic medical centers and health advocacy organizations, and chief lobbyist for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF).

Ronnie is the Founder and CEO of Rooted Momentum and serves as a strategic and thought partner to the Pyxis Partners team. A native of Massachusetts and a graduate of Skidmore College and Georgetown University, Ronnie lives with her husband, son and dog in Vienna, Va. and looks forward to school breaks when her two daughters are home from college. She serves as a Board member of the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation D.C./Northern Virginia Chapter and as a mentor with New Hope Housing in Alexandria, Va., providing support to clients in their residential homes and shelters.