Founder & ChairProtect Our Care
Leslie is leading the effort to protect the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid in the U.S. Congress through his role as founder and chair of Protect our Care. He also serves as a senior advisor to Co-Impact and the Rockefeller Foundation. He served in the Obama Administration as Senior Counselor to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, responsible for issues such as Ebola, Zika, the ACA, and nutrition policy. Previous roles include Executive Vice President and member of the management committee at Walmart Inc., where he led the development of initiatives in sustainability, food and nutrition, and women’s economic empowerment and the Walmart Foundation, global vice chairman of Edelman, a strategic communications firm, and senior capacities in six U.S. presidential campaigns. Leslie serves on the Board of the Environmental Defense Fund and Sunrun Inc., and is a member of the Yale University Council the Council on Foreign Relations.
