Lantie Slenzak is an expert legislative strategist with extensive experience on Capitol Hill. Lantie came to the Podesta Group after serving as Legislative Director for Representative Gene Green. Her primary responsibility in that role was to advance Rep. Green’s health care priorities on the House Energy and Commerce Committee and to provide guidance on a wide variety of health care initiatives. In this capacity, she also spearheaded the activities of the Congressional Vision Caucus, where she collaborated with the vision community stakeholders, improved awareness of vision disorders, and worked to secure an increase in funding for federal vision programs.