Elisabeth Benjamin is a healthcare policy researcher and advocate. Currently, she is the Vice President of Health Initiatives at the Community Service Society, where she supervises health policy, health advocacy, and consumer health assistance programs.The programs that Benjamin oversees help over 100,000 New Yorkers each year enroll in or use their health insurance or access low-cost health care. She is also a co-founder of Health Care for All New York Campaign, a statewide coalition of organizations devoted to securing affordable, quality health care for all New Yorkers.Previously, Benjamin worked as a health lawyer at the New York Civil Liberties Union, the Legal Aid Society, and Bronx Legal Services. She also worked overseas in various community health and humanitarian projects in India, Iraq, the Philippines, Morocco, and Tunisia.Benjamin received her M.Sc. in Health Policy and Management from Harvard School of Public Health and her J.D. from Columbia University School of Law. She clerked for the Honorable Robert Sweet, a federal District Court Judge for the Southern District of New York.