Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers
Amanda Pickett currently serves as the Executive Assistant and Program Manager at the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, a role commenced in August 2023. Previous experience includes positions at the Boston Consulting Group as a Senior Practice Area Coordinator and at Mass General Brigham as a Student Project Coordinator, focusing on diversity in health careers. Additional roles span various organizations, including leadership and administrative positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and involvement with initiatives promoting gender equity through Voice Male Magazine and the Cambridge Forum for Feminist Discussion of Masculinities. Amanda holds a Master’s degree in Gender and Cultural Studies from Simmons University and a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology and German from the University of Connecticut.
Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers
The Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers (League) is a non-profit, statewide association representing and serving the needs of the state's 52 community health center organizations, which serve more than 1,000,000 state residents through over 300 sites. The League serves as an information source on community-based health care to policymakers, opinion leaders and the media and provides a wide range of technical assistance to its members and communities, including: analysis of state and federal health regulatory and policy issues affecting health centers; training and education for health center administrators, clinicians and board members; promotion and management of clinical quality initiatives across the health center network; workforce development programs to increase recruitment of primary care physicians and to provide career training for health center employees and local residents seeking entry-level positions at health centers; information technology development primarily focused on helping health centers upgrade their information technology systems and capacity for using data; and general support to expand health access through work with local health and advocacy organizations seeking to open health centers in their communities.