NCLR Experts Available to Speak on U.S. Supreme Court’s Pending Health Reform Decision

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                               Contact:
June 18, 2012                                                                     Camila Gallardo
                                                                                             (305) 215-4259
                                                                                             cgallardo@nclr.org
                                                                                             Kathy Mimberg
                                                                                             (202) 316-2612
                                                                                             kmimberg@nclr.org

Washington, D.C.—Any day now, the U.S. Supreme Court will issue its decision on whether to uphold or strike down the Affordable Care Act (ACA), in whole or in part. Hanging in the balance are millions of Latinos who make up one of the most underinsured populations in the U.S. and are in great need of access to affordable health care. For insight on how the Supreme Court’s ACA decision will impact our nation’s largest minority community, the following NCLR (National Council of La Raza) health policy experts are available for press interviews:

• Jennifer Ng’andu, Deputy Director, Health Policy Project, oversees efforts to improve the health status and outcomes of Latinos through national policy change. Her work focuses on eliminating injustices in health care by increasing health coverage in the Latino community and improving access to quality care and services. In 2009, she worked on collective efforts to enact a major children’s health initiative, which resulted in more than 250,000 uninsured children receiving access to insurance and Congress restoring at least $1 billion of public health insurance to legal immigrant children and expectant mothers.
• Kara D. Ryan, Senior Research Analyst, helps tell the story of Latinos’ health and nutrition experiences in the U.S. Her areas of expertise include: access to health care for mixed-immigration-status families; Hispanics’ access to Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP); health data on Latino and other medically underserved communities; and Latino child nutrition (including hunger and obesity). Kara frequently serves as an expert panelist in national venues and serves as the NCLR liaison for the U.S. Census Bureau’s Census Information Center program.

For further information or to schedule an interview, contact Julian Teixeira, Director of Communications, at jteixeira@nclr.org. An infographic describing how the Supreme Court’s decision will impact Latinos is also available from NCLR. Please feel free to reproduce this graphic.

NCLR—the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States—works to improve opportunities for Hispanic Americans. For more information on NCLR, please visit www.nclr.org or follow along on Facebook and Twitter.

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