Alecia Sanchez is Chief Strategy Officer, working with the CEO and Vice Presidents to facilitate interdepartmental cooperation and coordination in implementing CMA’s strategic priorities. 

She previously served as one of CMA’s lobbyists, where she led successful advocacy efforts to remove non-medical exemptions for school vaccination and to pass a historic package of anti-tobacco legislation. Ms. Sanchez has over 15 years’ experience in the legislative arena, including serving as a legislative aide to two state assemblymembers.