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Affordable drug advocate joins Sen. Gillibrand's staff

Posted by on Oct. 29, 2019

After three months working the campaign trail in Iowa, a former affordable drug advocate has joined Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's (D-NY) staff as a speechwriter. 

From June to August, Lucy Westerfield served as the Iowa Policy Adviser and Deputy Communications Director for Gillibrand's 2020 bid. Gillibrand bowed out of the presidential race at the end of August. In September, Westerfield joined the senator's staff in D.C. 

Westerfield previously spent two years working for Patients for Affordable Drugs Now Inc., a group that advocates for breaking the "monopoly" on drug pricing. She served as the group's legislative director. 

Westerfield was no stranger to the Iowa presidential trail before joining Gillibrand's team. In the lead up to the 2016 election, she worked as a field organizer for the Iowa Democratic Party.