KATHARINE HUFFMAN is a Principal at The Raben Group, bringing to clients extensive experience both in litigation and in issue-based campaign development and implementation. Ms. Huffman has worked with a variety of nonprofit advocacy organizations to identify policy goals, develop short- and long-term strategic plans, and build the organizational programming and resources necessary to achieve success. With experience at the federal, state, and local levels of government, Ms. Huffman assists clients in broadening and connecting their advocacy and educational efforts across the board.
During her years in the nonprofit and foundation worlds, Ms. Huffman developed an expertise in impacting governmental policymaking from the private sector. Working with both the legislative and executive branches, she has experience with broad public education and media campaigns, grassroots lobbying mobilization, diverse coalition building, and direct lobbying. She brings these skills to her work on behalf of clients, assisting them in identifying and creating opportunities to influence policy at both the decision-making and implementation stages.
Prior to joining The Raben Group, Ms. Huffman served as the Director of State Affairs for the Drug Policy Alliance, a national nonprofit membership organization. In this role, Ms. Huffman managed the organization's state-level work, coordinating its state-based efforts with those of its DC-based federal office. Her responsibilities included overseeing all state legislative campaign planning and activities, hiring and supervising lobbyists and other specialists in priority states, and coordinating all organizational political campaign work. She also founded and directed the organization's first state-level office, which was in New Mexico.
Ms. Huffman began her legal career as a civil rights litigator and Soros Justice Fellow at the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta, Georgia. She spent several years advocating on behalf of people involved in the criminal justice system, litigating issues of access to medical services, mental health care, and substance abuse treatment in the Southeast's prisons and jails.
Ms. Huffman grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. She received her law degree from the Yale Law School; and received her undergraduate degree in Psychology and Music from Emory University, where she was a Robert W. Woodruff Scholar.
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