Jamey Bell, J.D.

Jamey Bell is Executive Director of Connecticut Voices for Children, where she works on tax and budget, health, education and child welfare issues, and leads the organization's legislative advocacy. She engages in policy research and data analysis, advocacy, community education and coalition-building to promote policy reforms that support families and improve equity for language minorities and other diverse communities.

She was an attorney at Greater Hartford Legal Aid, Inc. for 26 years, concentrating on legal issues affecting the well-being of low-income children and families, including health care policy and access, education, child welfare and immigrants' rights. She was lead counsel in successful class action litigation to require the Connecticut Department of Social Services to provide adequate dental care to low-income families on Medicaid.

Jamey Bell has a B.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan and a J.D. degree from Northeastern University School of Law.

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