Lucy Cox-Chapman brings to Spitfire experience working on Capitol Hill and a presidential campaign. Lucy’s work at Spitfire focuses on policy and advocacy at the state and federal levels involving children’s health, immunizations and public health and child welfare. The daughter of a primary care doctor, Lucy has a strong interest in health issues.

Lucy’s projects cover a broad range of topics, one of which is a messaging project for state health advocates working to strengthen children’s health care policy. For this project, Lucy develops template materials for advocates to use in their communications work with legislators and their constituents. As part of this work, Lucy has conducted media coverage analysis and helped develop messaging around children’s health. Lucy also works on issues around public health and welfare, ranging from projects aimed at setting up and promoting flu clinics at polling places to working on changing the conversation around foster care and child welfare in Oregon.

Before joining Spitfire, Lucy worked for U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd, of Connecticut, in both his Senate office in Washington, D.C., and on his campaign for the 2008 Democratic Presidential nomination.

Lucy got her start, like many on Capitol Hill, answering constituent phone calls and responding to constituent correspondence. Later she became the assistant to Sen. Dodd’s chief of staff and prepared briefings materials for Sen. Dodd and his chief of staff, handled correspondence and provided administrative support. Lucy managed the intern program that grew to as many as 15 interns during a session and oversaw their applications, development and final evaluation.

She joined Sen. Dodd’s presidential campaign and served as the assistant to his national campaign manager. Lucy coordinated as many as 35 surrogates, including nine members of Congress, to campaign on Sen. Dodd’s behalf in the primary states. Lucy served as the liaison to the campaign’s national co-chairs and organized 150 volunteers to travel out to Iowa for the final week of the campaign. Lucy also provided support to Sen. Dodd’s scheduling director by assisting with event requests and travel arrangements. Lucy organized travel and logistics for two presidential debates, and helped staff the senator and his family at four presidential debates in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Washington, D.C.

As an undergraduate, Lucy interned at The Maine Women’s Fund, a foundation that supports organizations working to improve the lives of women and girls in Maine. She was a teaching assistant for two years in the freshman seminar, “America and the World after 9/11” and part of the Advisory Council for the George Marshall Foreign Policy Society.

A native of Connecticut, Lucy received her B.A. in political science from Williams College.