About Us

Founded in 2016, CURA Strategies is a bipartisan strategic communications and public affairs agency focused on one thing: transforming health care. Our name, CURA—Latin for care, concern and attention to others—exemplifies our mission to take exceptional care of our clients so they can transform the health care system and improve lives.

We believe that if a new solution exists that can help people live healthier for longer, it should be supported and available to patients. Yet, given the complexities of health care, many innovative health care organizations struggle to disrupt the status quo despite their best efforts.

We know how hard it can be to reach the right audiences or motivate the right decisionmakers to take action, and we hate seeing organizations waste time and money on strategies that don’t yield results. That is why one of our core values is to deliver results by partnering with clients to create and execute communications and advocacy campaigns that motivate the right people to take transformative action.

Using our client-centric, customized communications and advocacy approach, we have helped over 60 clients mobilize their missions, guided the launch of 9 national coalitions and received 20 industry awards in just five years.

Let’s transform health care TOGETHER

We work with CURAGE

We define CURAge as bold leadership to improve society and help others. Whereas courage is self-focused and individual, CURAge is others-focused and team-centered. It’s taking on our clients’ causes as our own. It’s looking for opportunities to maximize your investment to deliver results. With CURAge, taking transformative action to improve health and lives is always a winning strategy.

Our CURAgeous culture is brought to life through a set of behaviors and attitudes.

We love transforming health care

We serve & contribute proactively

We partner with clients to deliver results

Our Team

Anne Woodbury is a recognized healthcare strategist with a proven track-record of success designing and executing multifaceted public affairs and communication campaigns that incite transformational change. Anne’s consulting experience spans the industry. From non-profit organizations to Fortune 50 corporations, she has worked with medical device, pharmaceutical and insurance companies, health tech start-ups, home health providers, consumer groups, medical societies and health-related trade associations to make a positive impact on people’s health and wellness.

Anne Woodbury

CEO and Founder

Thy-Ann Nguyen has extensive experience planning and implementing strategic communications programs for clients across the health care spectrum, successfully executing numerous integrated communications initiatives, thought leadership campaigns, product launches and issue-based campaigns.

Thy-Ann Nguyen

Senior Vice President and
Managing Director

Scott Leezer is a seasoned strategic public affairs expert with over 10 years of bipartisan government relations consulting experience. Mission-driven to achieve success for his clients, Scott strives to make the world a better place for his transformational health care clients. Scott’s genuine understanding of public policy and political landscapes helps him to develop and implement strategic policy agendas that meet his client’s goals and objectives through relationships with key stakeholders.

Scott Leezer

Senior Vice President of
Government Relations

Jen Young is a seasoned communications, marketing and public affairs executive with 25 years of experience. Jen has a blended experience with directing integrated campaigns, programs and operations for health and non-health related corporations, government agencies, trade associations and advocacy organizations. She is a dynamic and collaborative leader with demonstrated success in facilitating communications within complex organizations and the consistent delivery of impactful results.

Jen Young

Senior Vice President

Michael Lisowski is a skilled government relations professional with nearly a decade of experience working on federal public policy. From drafting legislative language and passing bills, to coordinating with coalition partners, planning fly-ins, advocacy days, and roundtables, Michael has participated in all facets of the legislative process.

Michael Lisowski

Director of Government Relations

Anna Easterbrooks has a decade of experience leading and producing full-scale, integrated digital media campaigns serving clients from non-profits to corporations, for former U.S. Congressmen and Representatives to CEOs and authors. As an experienced digital media strategist, Anna specializes in maximizing digital footprints with a focus on content strategy and online community engagement, leveraging real-time data analytics and trends to execute successful long-term advocacy and awareness campaigns, as well as bolstering corporate communications efforts.

Anna Easterbrooks

Digital Marketing Director

Erin Buckley is a communications professional specializing in corporate communications for companies and organizations. Erin is known for her cheerfully persistent approach to project management and her keen eye for detail and editing. Erin is experienced across communications disciplines including social and digital media, though she is particularly passionate about writing and earned media.

Erin Buckley

Managing Supervisor

Falen Petros is skilled at health promotion, education, and community relations. Falen has a passion for health equity and social marketing. Prior to joining CURA, Falen worked at Child Care Aware of America to support Child Care Resource and Referral agencies across the country. Falen’s professional experiences also include serving as a Health Educator at Inova Health Systems. Falen received her Masters of Science in Public Health Education and Promotion from Marymount University.

Falen Petros

Account Supervisor

Kellsie Brannen is a communications specialist, experienced in a wide variety of public relations disciplines, including graphic design, social media and copywriting. In addition to providing day-to-day support across multiple accounts, Kellsie also serves as the agency’s in-house graphic designer and is responsible for strategizing and developing platform-specific visual content across nonprofit and corporate accounts.

Kellsie Brannen

Senior Graphic Designer

Sydney Shepherd has extensive experience implementing integrated grassroots/advocacy and government relations campaigns to achieve legislative goals, particularly in the nonprofit sector. Sydney is passionate about elevating the voices of advocates to promote transformational legislative changes in health care.

Sydney Shepherd

Senior Account Executive

Devon Atchison is a communications professional specializing in social media strategy and event production to help clients achieve their business and advocacy goals. Devon graduated from Wittenberg University with a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing and Communication.

Devon Atchison

Senior Account Executive

Patrick Meade is a communications professional specializing in congressional outreach and advocacy, working with health care industry clients to achieve their advocacy and business goals. Patrick graduated from the University of Maryland with a bachelor’s degree in Government and Politics, along with Economics, and interned for two members of Maryland’s Congressional delegation.

Patrick Meade

Assistant Account Executive

After graduating from Virginia Commonwealth University with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology, and working as a paraprofessional in ABA therapy, Collin Walden joined the CURA team. Collin is dedicated to providing in-depth research and helping in any way that he can.

Collin Walden

Assistant Account Executive

After graduating from Virginia Commonwealth University with a bachelor’s degree in Interdisciplinary Studies and a minor in General Business, Lula joined the CURA team to apply her disciplines within the communications field. Leveraging her studies in public relations, creative practices and marketing, Lula works with her account teams to help clients achieve their goals.

Lula Hailesilassie

Assistant Account Executive

Chelsea Armstrong is an administrative and communications professional with a love for all things organized and creative. Chelsea’s background in customer service, promotions and office management helps her implement the day-to-day processes at CURA. Driven to improve work-life balance, Chelsea prides herself on helping others be more productive. As a Communications graduate of West Chester University, Chelsea continues to hone her skills for her main passion in life: people.

Chelsea Armstrong

Executive Assistant & Office Coordinator

Lynette handles all financial matters for CURA, working closely with the leadership team to advise on financial reporting and relevant accounting and financial tasks.

Lynette Gates

Finance Associate

Our Awards

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