Emily Blair Rubright

Principal + Founder

Emily Blair Rubright is a seasoned policy expert with more than a decade of experience on Capitol Hill, having held influential roles in both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives. Throughout her career, she has cultivated strong, bipartisan relationships with lawmakers and congressional staff across a wide range of policy areas, including healthcare, veterans’ issues, defense, and foreign policy.

Most recently, Emily served as the Senior Health Policy Advisor to the Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. In this role, she led comprehensive oversight and legislative initiatives focused on precision health; innovative brain and mental health diagnostics and treatments; suicide prevention; federal research policy at the Department of Veterans' Affairs, National Institutes of Health, and Department of War; and the advancement of value-based care delivery within the Veterans' Health Administration (VHA).

Emily has played a key role in drafting and shaping landmark legislation, including P.L. 116-171, the Commander John Scott Hannon Veterans’ Mental Health Care Improvement Act. Her work has revolutionized suicide prevention efforts for veterans, helped catalyze the Veteran Health Administration’s transition toward a value-based care model, significantly expanded the use of peer support in mental health care, and advanced transformative federal research in precision brain health.

Earlier in her career, Emily served as a legislative aide in the U.S. House of Representatives, where she worked on health and foreign policy issues for a member of Congress serving on the House Energy & Commerce Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Outside of her professional work, Emily enjoys spending time with her husband and young son, running, and volunteering at her son’s school.